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  • Summary: The latest full-length solo release from Throwing Muses' Kristin Hersh features strings and ambient field recordings.
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  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
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  1. Sep 6, 2023
    80
    Like Hersh herself, the album resists convention and refuses to be pinned down.
  2. Sep 8, 2023
    80
    Clear Pond Road's mesmerizing sonics and songwriting make it special among her solo albums. Nearly 30 years after Hips and Makers, it offers another chance to savor the intricacies of her music as well as its power.
  3. Uncut
    Sep 6, 2023
    80
    Deliciously dark and yet full of an elegant lightness, this is Hersh at the top of her considerable game. [Oct 2023, p.29]
  4. The Wire
    Sep 6, 2023
    80
    She’s done it again but, as ever, differently. [Oct 2023, p.56]
  5. Sep 8, 2023
    80
    Clear Pond Road is an album that takes time to really get under your skin, but once its there, it continues to reward, enchant, and disturb. It’s another wonderful addition to the Hersh canon.
  6. Classic Rock Magazine
    Sep 15, 2023
    70
    It's an album that rewards repeated immersion within its layers of acoustic guitar, questing strings and Mellotron. [Oct 2023, p.87]
  7. Mojo
    Sep 6, 2023
    60
    Hard-won optimism, as ever, from this troubled heroine. [Oct 2023, p.78]