This came out in 1998 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“I swear to God, we thought we were a party band,” Kristin Hersh of writes of her idiosyncratic ex-combo Throwing Muses.
Obviously, she wasn’t paying attention. Then again, most people weren’t. Thankfully, Ryko has picked up the ball with this two-CD set of early releases by the band — which also featured Hersh’s stepsister Tanya Donnelly — along with demos and bonus tracks. Part Patti Smith, part Siouxsie Sioux, Hersh’s edgy alt-rock wail (“Listening now, I wonder if I was all there,” she admits) says it once and for all: This ain’t no party band.
