OK, so it's all melodramatic bullshit, but that's the kind of atmosphere that Throwing Muses implant in your head on their current album 'Red Heaven'. A mighty change in direction for the Throwing Muses. Kirstin Hersh, David Narcizo and Leslie Langston have it down to a tee. They know exactly how to instil atmosphere into what they're doing, and do it they do well.
"Yeah, you know it's weird," comments Kirstin. "We might have recorded the album in the most expensive studio in New York, but it still sounds like it was recorded at a gig. It would have been impossible to end up with anything else as there are four different elements in our band. This time we didn't use any effects like fuzz-boxes and so on. All I did was to turn up a really old Marshall amp as high as possible so that all the lights on the desk went to red and get a raw, dirty sound that I can get any time I want. I really hate overdubs and back-up tapes. Man, musics gotta come from the heart and not from some sort of digital desk in a studio."
With a major tour that they finished in 91 under their belt the Muses have gone on a retro trip to discover their roots. Theyre now a perfect unit working, as one, on a quest to find the roots of American music. The folks in the South can be mighty proud of their little northern friends as the Muses continue their little quest.
"I just couldn't stand that multi-guitar stuff anymore and in the end there just wasnt anything left for us to do, but to split the band up and reform as a trio with a more simple and rawer edge. Rock'n'roll's a prison that you just gotta break out of once in a while."
Long live a good old fashioned jailbreak!
Reproduced from Indie-cator, Issue 1, October 1992
Disclaimer:- Yeah, I know that the writer of this article has difficulty with names, facts etc but this is how it was printed. It's not for me to pass judgement but it's hardly surprising that this mag was so short-lived!
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