Last year, Throwing Muses released their 11th studio album, Moonlight Concessions. Today, Kristin Hersh is back with a new solo song called "Sundial," which serves as the first preview of a new album coming later this year.
"Musicians' heartbeats align right before they start a song together," Hersh says of the track. "Real musicians, anyway… This is a measurable phenomenon, but no one has measured how long our hearts keep beating together. A long time, I think."
She continues, "Sometimes I'll miss someone so suddenly, like a lightning strike. If they're a fellow musician, this is usually triggered by musical moments; certain tempos and keys. A person's sound story… is an intense, rainstorm — dark and sunshine — bright orientation, like telling time with a sundial. It doesn't leave you."
The song is a haunting, poetic elegy: "This song's in your key/ That's you playing in the trees," she sings over gloomy guitars and evocative cello. Listen below.
