Blog: SoundsXP

Kristin Hersh has a new record out. Really, you want more before you go out and get it? OK… If anything 50 Foot Wave shade it for me as the finest incarnation of her raw songwriting muse. The five songs on With Love From The Men’s Room get up there in your face nearly as much as the songs from Golden Ocean did. With the Wave Hersh sings as if the words are being torn from her belly against her will while the guitars circle, roll and scour over a thumping drum. And yet the music retains [...]