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With hindsight, there is something curious about the fact that what seemed to be the final Throwing Muses album was titled Limbo. After all, the reason why band songwriter/guitarist Kristin Hersh, drummer David Narcizo and bassist Bernard Georges went their separate ways in 1997 was not the usual musical or personal differences ("we loved each other and Limbo was our best record"), but simply finances. After 13 luminous years, "the band was barely breaking even, and it just didn't seem to make sense financially to continue Throwing Muses as a living entity," as Kristin remembers. And isn't change sometimes a necessity? But there are ties that bind, and as Hersh maintains, "we've wanted to make an album ever since we found out we couldn't."
Which accounts for a new Throwing Muses album, given (for the first time in their history) a definite eponymous title, chosen because the band sees this as a definitive work. Throwing Muses may be the zenith of the Muses' power-trio incarnation. READ MORE…
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