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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album arguably brings together many qualities from Kristin's Throwing Muses and solo music and delivers one great album in the process.
Starting with the up-tempo rocking In Shock all the way through this album works greatly both as individual songs, covering the whole emotional spectrum from powerful, driven songs like "under the gun", through the driving beat of "Day Glo", classic quite kristin hersh songs like "Nerve Endings" with violin and cello, the album is filled with varied, great songs.
On top of being a collection of great songs for every occasion, the whole album works great as a whole, with one song flowing into the other without any jarring jumps despite the variety of songs, for example the way the energetic Under the Gun is followed by the very peacefull instrumental makes it a perfect whole. Kristin is also going to be on tour for the next few month, which is also a great experience.
Starting with the up-tempo rocking In Shock all the way through this album works greatly both as individual songs, covering the whole emotional spectrum from powerful, driven songs like "under the gun", through the driving beat of "Day Glo", classic quite kristin hersh songs like "Nerve Endings" with violin and cello, the album is filled with varied, great songs.
On top of being a collection of great songs for every occasion, the whole album works great as a whole, with one song flowing into the other without any jarring jumps despite the variety of songs, for example the way the energetic Under the Gun is followed by the very peacefull instrumental makes it a perfect whole. Kristin is also going to be on tour for the next few month, which is also a great experience.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've been entranced by Kristin Hershs' music since the early days of Throwing Muses, through her disparate solo albums and her experiments with 5o Foot Wave. I've not loved everything unequivocally, but when Kristin sings my bones vibrate, and even if I don't always understand where she's going, I'm always glad to be along for the ride.
The songs on Learn To Sing Like A Star feel like a writer and performer more in control of her muse than she may have been at times, and enjoying every minute of it. There are moments when I'm reminded of Real Ramona - era Throwing Muses, even of the melodic sensibilities Tanya Donelly brought to their work at that time, but the voice and the lyrics are pure Kristin. There are also moments when the simple directness we've heard in songs on some of her recent solo albums is to the fore. And there are songs that just rock.
I don't know if I can pick outstanding tracks on this album because I honestly don't think there is a bad piece of work on it. As lyrically beautiful and complex as ever, this is an album long-time Kristin Hersh enthusiasts will love, but it may also be more accessible to newer listeners than some of her other work, and if that leads to those people going back and listening properly to her earlier work, and paying attention in the future, that can only be a good thing.
Above all, there is a huge amount of joy and fun in this album, something that's always been in Kristin's work, though sometimes you may have had to look harder to see it. Kristin never just gives us more of the same, and I can't wait to hear what's next.
The songs on Learn To Sing Like A Star feel like a writer and performer more in control of her muse than she may have been at times, and enjoying every minute of it. There are moments when I'm reminded of Real Ramona - era Throwing Muses, even of the melodic sensibilities Tanya Donelly brought to their work at that time, but the voice and the lyrics are pure Kristin. There are also moments when the simple directness we've heard in songs on some of her recent solo albums is to the fore. And there are songs that just rock.
I don't know if I can pick outstanding tracks on this album because I honestly don't think there is a bad piece of work on it. As lyrically beautiful and complex as ever, this is an album long-time Kristin Hersh enthusiasts will love, but it may also be more accessible to newer listeners than some of her other work, and if that leads to those people going back and listening properly to her earlier work, and paying attention in the future, that can only be a good thing.
Above all, there is a huge amount of joy and fun in this album, something that's always been in Kristin's work, though sometimes you may have had to look harder to see it. Kristin never just gives us more of the same, and I can't wait to hear what's next.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Been a while coming, but don't they say the best things are always worth waiting for.
Kristin's haunting moody vocals at their very best. An extremely well written and constructed album.
Powerful almost Throwing Muses like numbers, the likes of In Shock will have you knowing you've made the right purchase long before you get to more melodic numbers like Thin Man.
Its just one of those albums that from the moment you hear the first track you KNOW you're gonna love everyone on it, first play through!! A must for anyone who knows Kristins music, a deffinate for anyone curious enough to read this.
Kristin's haunting moody vocals at their very best. An extremely well written and constructed album.
Powerful almost Throwing Muses like numbers, the likes of In Shock will have you knowing you've made the right purchase long before you get to more melodic numbers like Thin Man.
Its just one of those albums that from the moment you hear the first track you KNOW you're gonna love everyone on it, first play through!! A must for anyone who knows Kristins music, a deffinate for anyone curious enough to read this.
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Best since Sky Motel and Strange Angels
Probably one of the best offerings from Kristen Hersh. Vocally and lyrically KH is at her best, with her increasingly raspy/hoarse voice (I firmly believe she intentionally waited... Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2007 by C. O'Neill
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When Kristin Hersh left Throwing Muses to have a crack at a solo career, she went a little soft on us, with her version of what can only be described as Dirty Alternative Folk. Read more
Published on 30 Nov 2007 by spacedog1979
La Perla underwear wrapped in a JC Penny coat.
Kristin Hersh has written and performed some of the finest songs ever penned; personal, pained, keenly observed, yet always played so pure and simple - amplifying her razor... Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2007 by Kezzworld
Her best since Strange Angels
Kristin Hersh's Learn to Sing Like a Star is her best work since Strange Angels. Although not as sparsely orchestrated as Angels, the songs here are as bare and powerful. Read more
Published on 9 Feb 2007 by pseudopanax
Most beautiful ablbum
This album arguably brings together many qualities from Kristin's Throwing Muses and solo music and delivers one great album in the process. Read more
Published on 21 Jan 2007 by adrian
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