Throwing Muses


Released 1986 on 4AD
Reviewed by gordon xx, 24/02/2004ce


A sound lived from new shacks, making demos as teenagers and cries from the heart beyond Rhode Island pictures. Brought up, picked up by 4AD, the id bleak. Kristin with her half-sister put up their first lean-tos, their first LP. No backs, she needs her soul like armour. How much does it mean to share imaginary America, Green Eyes, to be a fan of friends and childhood games? They brought to our lives a rare glimpse of the beauty of muses. Cherish the minds’ guitars where they were: Tanya’s voice and of those who don’t fit, thirteen. Constantly songwriting – more soft produced angles and suffered nightmares, more melodic than the bare, understand how it feels to seem; hallucinations. Lines run down, can’t look up. Diagnosed shattering structures of being; to be. A secret hold to schizophrenia, Kristin’s tortured into raw, to share, to revel in disorder. Clean up, lack of time through the ice. Good self, bad child, stand up, the soul startling imagery and self, voice(s), songs came dying as the cold, starkness of forms. Muses, with Delicate Cutters, is a deep abandon(ment). Only those two, the battling and howling; masterpiece of touch with an unenviable entwining of voices and cradles. Self-harm, broken-windows’ sadness could possibly love and nurture guitars employed of broken souls. Could be a smack, crashes raining at me. Your indebted wall falls always, hated walls. Vickys Box is this band so much, to the funky bass of Lesley. Recoil and fashioned, soothe the wounds, added black the songs hanging together something so primal, rhythms and staccato in a web of string, guts and beyond words, beyond snares and the quake of trauma, and – crucially put together - beyond birth.


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