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    Sky Motel

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    Artist: Kristin Hersh
    Label: 4ad / Ada
    Category: Music

    List Price: $16.98
    Buy Used: $0.35
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    New (13) Used (22) from $0.35

    Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 reviews
    Sales Rank: 199638

    Media: Audio CD
    Discs: 1
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
    Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

    UPC: 652637901221
    EAN: 0652637901221
    ASIN: B00000JCBL

    Release Date: July 20, 1999
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

    Tracks:

      • Echo
      • White Trash Moon
      • Fog
      • Costa Rica
      • A Cleaner Light
      • San Francisco
      • Cathedral Heat
      • Husk
      • Caffeine
      • Spring
      • Clay Feet
      • Faith

    Similar Items:

      • Sunny Border Blue
      • Strange Angels
      • Hips and Makers
      • The Grotto
      • Learn to Sing Like a Star

    Editorial Reviews:

    Amazon.com
    Kristin Hersh has been in a constant state of artistic evolution ever since the now-defunct Throwing Muses emerged in 1984. As a solo artist, she has displayed a uniquely unorthodox perspective by incorporating observations about parenthood, adult relationships, madness, and manifestations of life on the fringe. With Sky Motel, Hersh combines the introspective nature of her past solo work with the rocking insurgency of the Throwing Muses. Accompanied by Muses drummer David Narcizo, Robert Rust on keyboards, and guitarist Tom Gorman, she explores themes of faith, emotional ambivalence, and life in L.A. with poetic insight. The music here is powerful and Hersh's vocal stylings are both tough and emotionally vulnerable. Once again, Kristin Hersh reveals herself as a multifaceted songwriter with plenty to say. --Mitch Myers

    Album Description
    1999 solo album by the former leader of Throwing Muses. 12 tracks, including the single 'Echo'.


    Customer Reviews:   Read 20 more reviews...

    5 out of 5 stars no vacancy   March 27, 2000
     6 out of 6 found this review helpful

    It's a sad truth that Throwing Muses will probably never really reunite, and listening to "Sky Motel" serves to remind us of the majesty, creativity, and absolutely phantasmagoric mood of Kristin Hersh when she's standing in front of a band. Although "Sky Motel" sounds more like a Throwing Muses album than a Kristin Hersh album, it still has that undeniable quirkiness and eerie spook that is present in every chord Kristin plays, and every phrase she utters. "Sky Motel" experiments with different sounds, including the lounge-y "Echo," and even sports an actual radio-ready pop song in "A Cleaner Light." But more impressive are the grinding melodies of "Cathedral Heat," the nothing-short-of-brilliant lyrical play of "Costa Rica," and the kind of love song that only Kristin Hersh could write, "Spring." Kristin obviously misses her Muses, and it's no wonder: she is powerful and masterful when accompanied by a band, as "Sky Motel" gracefully proves. But she is more than capable of carrying the torch on her own, even when playing with a fuller sound than we hear on "Hips and Makers" or "Strange Angels," let alone the stripped-down "Murder, Misery, and Then Goodnight." Throwing Muses was always Kristin's vehicle, of course, and her solo work is only another side of a brilliantly tossed coin. "Sky Motel" is a daring combination of the best of her accoustic work and the most catchy of her Throwing Muses days. "Nothing like chrome when it shines." Indeed!


    4 out of 5 stars Kristin Hersh's third solo album is the finest one yet.   March 6, 2001
     5 out of 5 found this review helpful

    SKY MOTEL, Kristin Hersh's third solo album, is the first to feature electric instruments. As a result, it brings the listener back to the fondly remembered days of her band Throwing Muses.

    Hersh's songwriting on SKY MOTEL is as strong and idiosyncratic as ever, but the electric guitars and David Narcizo on drums give each track an added punch that make this her most accessible solo effort yet. The powerful "Echo" makes an excellent opening. "A Cleaner Light" is a rarity in pop music, a track that is both artistically viable and radio-friendly. "Cathedral Heat" is perhaps the album's highest peak, as Kristin sings "kissing in the middle of a terrible storm." The quiet "Faith" trails off to mark the end of this worthy album.

    Forgetting about individual tracks and looking at the album as a whole, this disc takes time to grow on the listener, but it ultimately satisfies. Kristin Hersh's lyricism is certainly out of the ordinary, but once you get the core essence of the album, it all flows well.

    For those who have yet to hear Kristin, I would recommend this over her two previous solo albums, HIPS AND MAKERS and STRANGE ANGELS, as the electric guitars of SKY MOTEL give it a wide range of appeal.


    4 out of 5 stars The hayseed with the song in his heart...   June 3, 2003
     5 out of 5 found this review helpful

    Amazon made a mistake with the track listings - this is what they really are:

    1. Echo
    2. White Trash Moon
    3. Fog
    4. Costa Rica
    5. A Cleaner Light
    6. San Francisco
    7. Cathedral Heat
    8. Husk
    9. Caffeine
    10. Spring
    11. Clay Feet
    12. Faith

    It's a really good album, not Kristin's best offering, but still 99% better than most of the junk on the radio. Some of Kristin's most rock-style songs are here featuring her usual brand of witty poetic lyrics, that beautifully raspy voice and some sonic experimentation - notice the chirping crickets which both open and close the album. If you're a first time Kristin listener I'd recommend "Sunny Border Blue" or "Strange Angels" first, and later checking out this album and "The Grotto."


    5 out of 5 stars arrest the boy....   December 20, 2000
     3 out of 4 found this review helpful

    Is this CD as good as "Hips & Makers?" Maybe or maybe not but it is better than just about everything else in the singer/songwriter category that's come up recently. We could opine on the comparisons between these two CDs but at some point we're splitting hairs. One thing is clear though. What goes on in Kristin Hersh's head is the lords own private mystery. She has an ability to tap into a stream of conscious that turns me green with envy. Her signature moving bass line finger style guitar playing has a voice all its own that fits perfectly with her eclectic poetry.


    5 out of 5 stars It took me several years...   March 10, 2003
     3 out of 6 found this review helpful

    I didn't buy this album until January 2003. First I thought it was an album that I already had, silly me I confused it with "Strange Angels." After borrowing it from my boyfriend, I realized that I needed to buy it!

    I've been a Throwing Muses fan since 1990 and was ecstatic when Kristin put out "Hips & Makers." I didn't like "Strange Angels" the first time through and for some reason didn't listen to it for several years. I saw her live in 2001 purchasing "Sunny Border Blue" after the show. I didn't realize that I had missed "Sunny Border Blue" coming out because I was so out of the music loop. I hardly knew that the bands I liked had new albums coming out.

    So I bought this album after borrowing it from my boyfriend and realizing that a lot of the songs on the Works In Progress II were from "Sky Motel."

    I love this album now! I particularly love "White Trash Moon" after hearing Kristin's story behind the song. "Fog" is a great song too. And "Cleaner Light" has been stuck in my head many times! "Clay Feet" makes me think of Kristin playing on the kitchen floor with her boys, and reminds me of "skating" around the kitchen in my stocking feet as a kid.


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