KRISTIN HERSH

Possible Dust Clouds FIRE 7/10 hersh goes electric again

Kristin Hersh’s discography, between her solo work, Throwing Muses and other projects, is now of such a size that it is possible to grow complacent about its quality as well as its quantity. This should be resisted: Possible Dust Clouds is, like all her others, the work of an artist both singular and shape-shifting, always herself, but never predictable. Notably louder than Hersh’s other solo records, if it evokes anything else in her canon it’s Throwing Muses’ furious, fabulous 1992 album Red Heaven, with “Loud Mouth” and “LAX” being especially elemental eruptions.