Throwing Muses – Summer Of Love: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day

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Throwing Muses release their new single, Summer Of Love, with album, Moonlight Concessions, on the way in March along with a visit from Kristin Hersh that month.

Here is the blurb from our friend at Fire Records:

Throwing Muses release their new album, Moonlight Concessions, on 14th March 2025 via Fire Records. The album follows their acclaimed Sun Racket from 2020, a heady set filled with tough and tender tales spiked with surreal imagery. New album Moonlight Concessions is released alongside the deviously titled, Moonlight Confessions, a companion record exclusively available with Rough Trade.

Throwing Muses

Produced by Kristin Hersh at Steve Rizzo’s Stable Sound Studio in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, ‘Moonlight Concessions’ goes back to basics, a return for Throwing Muses to their esoteric off-kilter best courtesy of Kristin’s pin-sharp sketches and their suitably abrasive musical arrangements.

‘Moonlight Concessions’ is a collection of snippets from everyday life writ large – think Raymond Carver Short Cuts, overheard conversations, recounted happenings and telling one-liners, all sewed together to illustrate the times as they slowly mature, fully peppered with original Muses’ vim and vigour.

New single, and album opener, ‘Summer Of Love’ began as a bet with a guy for a dollar that revolved around the idea that the seasons don’t change us. It’s a haunting baroque overture, bowed and brooding.

“He said we aren’t just planted here, stagnant, we’re in flux, responding to love like octopuses moving across the ocean floor. Turns out he was right, and I still owe him a buck.”

Written in the differing South Coast environs of The Gulf Of Mexico and Southern California, ‘Moonlight Concessions’ pulls from the star clusters that light both generating optimism and hope in varying degrees.

“New Orleans, the stars look greenish-blue, as it’s below sea level and swamp-lit. But on Moonlight Beach, they glow icy white. All these songs were written in these two glowy places, which helped our sonic technique find itself.”

Elsewhere xenophobes with shotguns prowl, an albatross flutters and is mistaken for a seagull and a homeless dude with a Spiderman mask raises a toast; perfect conditions for a band whose debut album from 1986 was retrospectively recognised by Pitchfork as “idiosyncratic and uncopiable”. Thankfully this glorious return to form ensures that nothing much has changed, from the DIY ethics of their early days.

“Our ‘Moonlight Concessions’ are still lighting the way. Not real spectacularly, nothing bright like a spotlight, just a glowing, helping each other home.”

Track List
A1 Summer Of Love
A2 South Coast
A3 Theremini
A4 Libretto
A5 Albatross
B1 Sally’s Beauty
B2 Drugstore Drastic
B3 You’re Clouds
B4 Moonlight Concessions

Kristin Hersh

Kristin comes to New Zealand in March:

The solo tour – proudly presented by Plus1 with UnderTheRadar and 95bFM – includes Wellington, Christchurch and two Auckland dates, as follows:

Thursday 20 March – The Vic Theatre, Devonport
Friday 21 March – The Tuning Fork, Auckland
Saturday 22 March – The Piano, Christchurch
Sunday 23 March – Old St Pauls, Wellington (with Jon Muq)

Tickets are on sale 9am Friday 1 November from plus1.co.nz

 

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