Kristin Hersh has shared a new song ahead of the first stop on a US tour with her trio Throwing Muses, which kicks off at NYC’s Cabinet of Wonders this weekend. Shadowy and atmospheric, “Sundial” is the first taste of a new Hersh solo record – her 12th overall – to be announced later this year on Fire Records.
The cello from last year’s Throwing Muses album “Moonlight Concessions” is back in a big way on “Sundial”, which Hersh describes as a song about the physical and emotional alignments that can form, and remain, between musicians when they play.
Writing in a press release she says: “Musicians’ heartbeats align right before they start a song together. 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.”
“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.”
“Sundial” · Kristin Hersh released through Fire Records
Released on: 2026-03-25
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