Throwing Muses [2003]
- Throwing Muses
- Band Name: Throwing Muses
- Record Label: 4AD
- Release Date: Mar 4, 2003
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82Throwing Muses are the counterpart-- or maybe the antidote-- to the driven, enraptured solitude of [Hersh's] solo material; they deliver a release and an excitement that's been missing from her work for years.
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A raw blast of electric power that serves as a career coda, of sorts.
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80It's amazing they're still so punk, so relentlessly jagged and vicious. [Apr 2003, p.110]
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80Just as electrifying as before. [May 2003, p.125]
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Their loudest, noisiest, most immediate album yet -- and it's one of their best.
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Throwing Muses, the 2003 incarnation, sounds as close as it ever has to the pre-House Tornado lineup some sixteen years back.
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80The combination of a rough production with the beautiful vocal harmonics makes this one of the Muses' best efforts to date.
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80Throwing Muses is an exhilarating ride that manages to marry the helter-skelter rhythmic pulse of the band's first few records with the poppier sensibilities of their nineties releases.
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80If the Throwing Muses are not still at the top of their game, they are very, very close.
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80It may lack subtlety but it sounds incredibly vital. [#229, p.68]
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This is an album that's tough to love but impossible to ignore.
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60Donelly's wild, sweet tones are the perfect counterpoint to Hersh's cajoling banshee of a voice. [Apr 2003, p.97]
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60Though low on hooks, the ragged and faster songs are sweetened by the vocal interplay between Hersh and Donelly. [Apr 2003, p.104]
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The Rhode Island trio has returned for its rawest record yet.
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As a whole, Throwing Muses still contains too much formless slop, but at least it's energetic.
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ra10This is the best album yet. Kristin's 7-year-itch has proven that she can still make mind-blowing music that has yet to be equalled.