Sunny Border Blue - Kristin Hersh

Hersh writes personal songs. She writes about her husband peeling mangoes on a couch. She writes about being f**ked. She writes about being afraid and about hate. It could be terribly self indulgent, but she is never that. She is far too observant, too 'true' to be that - seeking neither sympathy nor understanding, and certainly not admiration. She is simply thinking aloud, and doing so with a remarkable sharpness of observation. People knew how good she was back in the days of her previous band Throwing Muses. But somehow many of us suspected that the band were holding her back, straightjacketing her with their convoluted guitar trappings. Her voice and ...