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| Strange Angels | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kristin Hersh
Label: Rykodisc
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 154527
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 144310429288
EAN: 0014431042928
ASIN: B0000009RR
Release Date: February 3, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Home | | • | Like You | | • | Aching for You | | • | Cold Water Coming | | • | Some Catch Flies | | • | Stained | | • | Shake | | • | Hope | | • | Pale | | • | Baseball Field | | • | Heaven | | • | Gazebo Tree | | • | Gut Pageant | | • | Rock Candy Brains | | • | Cartoons |
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Strange Angels is a whispered testament, leaning on one voice and acoustic guitar, with occasional splashes of piano, cello, and strings. The result is far removed from Hersh's work with Throwing Muses, which packed it in 1996 after a decade of struggle and eight albums of coarse, uneven beauty. Along with her husband and kids, Hersh has made an even cleaner break from the past, leaving Boston for the solitude of the California desert near Joshua Tree. True to her new home base, Strange sounds like an album of folk songs written and sung under the clear night sky. When sung to children, lullabies are meant to induce sleep. When sung by Kristin Hersh to adults, they have the opposite effect. No matter how sweet or hushed the sound of Strange Angels, these lullabies disturb more than they comfort, jarring you awake when you're about to doze off, akin to what Hersh calls "cold water coming for the warm water junkies," but it can be oddly moving, too. --Keith Moerer
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| Customer Reviews: Read 14 more reviews...
 From One Strange Angel to Another November 9, 2001
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Strange Angels" is some of the most beautiful musical work that I have ever experienced. I really liked Throwing Muses and when I heard they disbanded, and Kristin was going solo, I was a little apprehensive, but this work is so much more introspective and delicate. This album speaks to me because of the intoxicating melodies and manic depressive lyrics. Hersh may rival the McCartney/Lennon (writing) team for such beautiful lyrics!! This is my favorite CD for all of these reasons.This makes me want to be a songwriter. Thanks Kristin!
This is the album that made me pick up a guitar December 29, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Were I to get stranded on a desert island with the luxury of a cd player, this album would be all I'd need to stay sane. I can't praise Strange Angels enough -- it is a musical revelation, and anyone who loves strange, poetic lyrics and beautiful, stilted guitar melodies, and unforgettable, unconventional voices should own this cd.
 Like a cold, spring day June 11, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I like this album, even though I liked Hips and Makers better. Some really great songs appear in this second solo effort. "Gazeebo Tree" and "Hope" are fantastic. She is an incredible guitarist and a spinner of surrealist paintings that often leave you reeling. The downside of this album is that it can be at times cold, and a little relentless in her bleak landscape of madness, isolation, and extreme of consciousness. Deffenitely for the lover of acoustic albums and poetry of the damned.
Something to treasure for a long time... July 18, 1998
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I first heard this, I was a little disappointed that there seemed to be no 'standout' tracks. _Hips And Makers_, good ole Kristin's other solo work so far, is studded with glorious tracks like "A Loon" and "Me And My Charms", with mood swings and folk inclusions giving it the flavor of a compilation of sorts, but _Strange Angels_ sounded so *subdued* in comparison. Several listens later, I hear this album for what it is - wonderful. The songs don't reach out and grab you, but they ooze with so much of that charming Kristin-ness we know and love, it makes you want to reach out and hug her, while also often sending glaring question marks into your consciousness as always, with her almost wilfully abstract and abstruse lyrics. _Strange Angels_ rolls along quietly by; two songs even segue into each other so that the first few times you'll miss the song change. Although 'standouts' are not apparent, as the songs flow so seamlessly into one another, m! y faves are songs like the knowing "Gut Pageant" and sparkling "Baseball Field". A real treat for us Hersh fans, and I can't wait for more...
 Just terrible April 29, 2003
2 out of 19 found this review helpful
What was I thinking? I heard a song from this CD about a year ago, wrote down the name and filed it for later. Finally made the purchase, and now I am stunned at how boooooooring it is!
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