Kristin Hersh's 'Wyatt At the Coyote Palace' in Stores Today
"Wyatt at the Coyote Palace," a double CD/ book combination from the highly creative KRISTIN HERSH (published by Overlook Omnibus), is in stores today!
Kristin is most recognized as the front person for the influential art-punk band, Throwing Muses, which she founded when she was 14. She also fronts the power trio 50FOOTWAVE, which released the "Bath White" EP in early summer of 2016.
"Wyatt' is the third release in the ground-breaking book-CD format that Hersh began with her previous solo album "Crooked" and Throwing Muses' 2013 release "Purgatory/Paradise". Since sharing essays and tour diaries on her own website, she has published the critically acclaimed "Rat Girl," a children's book "Toby Snax," and "Don't Suck, Don't Die," a personal account of her long friendship with the late Vic Chesnutt, that earned her rave reviews.
"Wyatt" is an immersive experience through the use of photographs, illustrations, a collection of true stories, and songs of love and loss, reflecting Hersh's humor with the pains and travails of a life spent in continual motion. Defined by potent guitars, addictive melodies and poignant lyrics, this release is a serious sign of strength and depth.
This is truly a solo album with Hersh not only writing and singing these songs, but also playing all instruments (including guitar, cello, horns, upright bass and piano and several instruments she built herself). She also incorporates found sounds into these recordings.
"The stories are all true. They happened over the last few decades. The songs were written in the last five years. They're true, too, in a much more oblique way," explains Hersh. "But it's always felt to me that songs were pushing my life around so they could be born: I live the stories and then the song lives. Very much like children. A baby isn't born because you got pregnant, you got pregnant because a baby was going to be born."
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