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WRITER'S 'GROTTO' Hersh's solo acoustic album rocks our world
Kristen Hersh: Brad Miller/Retna
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Release Date: Mar 04, 2003; Lead Performance: Kristin Hersh
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Tom Sinclair
Tom Sinclair is a senior writer for EW and has been called "the handsomest man in rock criticism'' (by his wife)
There's nothing cornier than a lank-haired white chick with an acoustic guitar whining about life's and love's inequities, right? Okay, we admit Joni Mitchell is an exception. So is alt-rock vet Kristin Hersh, who just dropped a corker of a solo acoustic album, The Grotto (4AD/Beggars Group). There's something in Hersh's hushed, otherworldly hymns about dysfunction and off-center mental states that's deeply unsettling -- in all the right ways. ''Snow buries Whitehall/White powdered Nembutal/And I can't think anymore,'' she sings on ''Sno Cat,'' and you know she's felt and lived that chill. Concurrent with ''The Grotto'''s release comes a new, eponymous album by Hersh's band, Throwing Muses. It rocks pretty good, but we'd really rather hear Hersh in stripped-down mode. She's got our vote for the title Ice Queen of Acoustic Ladyland.
Posted Mar 14, 2003
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