Black Pearl, by 50 Foot Wave

Black Pearl

by 50 Foot Wave

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eldudowski whole other hersh project i never heard of? zoinks! and it's bloody awesome,mesmerizing and intense. beautiful like the hungry lion running at you with its jaws agape. Favorite track: Staring Into The Sun.

eric "Surely Kristin has found every hook/chord progression/sound"...and then she releases another record of brilliantly composed/played/raw music, you realize there may be a reason for living, after all, Kristin Hersh continue to save my life through music, and I'll be forever thankful." Favorite track: Staring Into The Sun.

Wesley Meier I set my favorite track as Black Pearl. this isn't because that's my favorite song it's because the whole album is amazing. Favorite track: Black Pearl.

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1.	Staring Into The Sun 05:15	buy track
2.	Hog Child 05:44	buy track
3.	Fly Down South 04:05	buy track
4.	Black Pearl 02:33	buy track
5.	Broken Sugar 04:58	buy track
6.	Blush 05:38	buy track
7.	Double Barrel 04:01	buy track

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Black Pearl’ is the brand new album from 50 Foot Wave: Kristin Hersh’s ‘other’ band - active since 2003, with fellow Throwing Muses’ member Bernard Georges on bass and drummer Rob Ahlers. A sonic trip from the heavy, echoey riff of ‘Staring Into The Sun’ with all of its grunge melancholy and dronecore menace to the perfectly baroque ‘Hog Child’ with its spidery guitar that dissolves into motorik bass and drums.

Hailed in various quarters as “an outlet for the material deemed too weird or wild for Throwing Muses”, their “menacing, stalking, spirals of lean, hungry riffs, set alight” as “feedback rips into the fragile melody.”

50 Foot Wave continue to traverse the rigid tension of their own sound. They remain detuned and discordant at will.

“50 Foot wave are infinitely harder hitting and blunter than anything Hersh has produced previously”
BBC Music

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released April 15, 2022

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