An Evening with Kristin Hersh

Over the last three decades, Kristin Hersh’s prolific career has seen her heralded queen of the alternative release. Returning with a new solo record ‘Clear Pond Road’ released in September 2023, the album is a cinematic road trip; a series of personal vignettes from a fiercely independent auteur, plush with layers of atonal, edgy-dreamy strings and mellotron.

It’s a watershed moment in a career overflowing with creative firsts and inspirational thinking, an elegant piece of personal reportage. It’s a sensuous, life-affirming statement, a very personal memoir; it’s the blossoming of a true icon of independence.

In 2018, Hersh announced a new partnership with Fire Records that made possible the release of her acclaimed tenth studio album, ‘Possible Dust Clouds’. Since then there’s been new releases from Throwing Muses (‘Sun Racket’, 2020) and 50Foot Wave (‘Black Pearl’, 2022) along with new book ‘Seeing Sideways’ (2022).

Currently in the studio working on the next offering from Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh is also preparing for a three-month solo tour to celebrate across the UK and Ireland before heading to Australia and New Zealand.

'Kristin Hersh's tough, instinctive wail, has been one of the greatest sounds in American underground rock for decades' - Stereogum

KRISTIN HERSH DELIVERS NEW MUSIC WITH NEW SOLO ALBUM DUE IN 2026

Kristin Hersh shares brand new single ‘Sundial’, a dark, quietly haunting new single offering the first glimpse of new music with a full album to follow later this year. Heading out this Spring for another extensive Throwing Muses US tour, Kristin will then return to the UK and Europe for a solo tour in support of the new record this Autumn.

Sparse and atmospheric, new track ‘Sundial’ unfolds slowly around Hersh’s voice, with cello bringing a low, shadowed undercurrent to a track that feels both intimate and elusive. The song circles around the strange, lasting connections formed between musicians, and how certain sounds or moments can suddenly bring someone back into focus. Hersh traces the idea to something she’s often noticed when collaborating: “Musicians’ heartbeats align right before they start a song together. Real musicians, anyway… This is a measurable phenomenon, but no one has measured how long our hearts keep beating together. A long time, I think.”