Kristin HershBest Kristin Hersh Albums Ranked
7.7
Avg Score
9
Opinions
8
Albums
2
Reviewers
Summary from 9 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Kristin Hersh's catalog across 8 albums from 9 opinions, with an overall average of 7.7/10. The top-rated Kristin Hersh album is Sunny Border Blue (2001) with a 8.1/10 average from 2 ratings, followed by Wyatt at the Coyote Palace and Sky Motel. The discography on Wavelength spans 1999 to 2023.
Sky Motel
“Former Throwing Muses frontwoman and Appalachian lullaby- singing mom is back with her third solo album. But just because she's calmer now than she was during her days with Throwing Muses, don't assume *Sky Motel* is a washed- out affair. Hersh's demons may have been vanquished, but her lyrical acuity can still pierce and unsettle. Nowadays, it's just not so strident. Hersh revisits Throwing Muse”
The Grotto
“Sometimes we music writers do wrong by Kristin Hersh: we can steal her words. The press around her last album, *Sunny Border Blue*, honed in on a few lines that made unusually (for her) naked admissions about troubles in her life-- her custody battle over her eldest son, or the break-up of the Throwing Muses-- wrapped up as conveniently as when John Lennon first sang, "I don't believe in Beatles."”
Sunny Border Blue
“Kristin Hersh has been a great many things: the snakecharmer, the Queen Mum of indie rock, Vic Chesnutt's biggest supporter, and fan-friendly (to a fault). But I like to think of her as a veteran major league pitcher-- though she may slump and streak, she still keeps up the high baseline output that justifies contracts the size of Denmark's gross national product. You get what you pay for, and Her”
Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
“Hersh’s latest solo album is a typically personal and idiosyncratic affair, rich with dense but frank allusions to the dissolution of her 25-year marriage.”
Learn to Sing Like a Star
“The Throwing Muses/50FootWave leader's self-produced seventh album-- and first for Yep Roc-- eschews the tangled goth-pop aesthetic of her previous imprint, 4AD.”
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