Kristin Hersh - Possible Dust Clouds

The first full studio album in over a decade from Throwing Muses’ lynchpin, Possible Dust Clouds reaffirms Kristin Hersh’s reputation as one of alternative rock’s most fearless innovators. A ten-track set—her tenth solo album—it presents a brooding yet melodious vision: part dark sunshine, part venomous squall.

Built from a foundation of friends and collaborators, the record expands Hersh’s off-kilter sonic world into a squally, feedback-laced mix of discordant beauty. Gyrating between delicate strums and blasts of phasing chaos, the album recalls the raw edges of Dinosaur Jr. or My Bloody Valentine refracted through Hersh’s singular songwriting. It’s both abrasive and intimate, haunting and deceptively structured—music that embraces contrast as its most powerful weapon.

As Hersh herself describes, songs here embody “both sunshine and charm, but also darkness and violence—the two sides of your psychology showing each other off in relief.” That tension makes Possible Dust Clouds a glorious return, balancing intensity with nuance.

Celebrated as “a very, very special musician” (The Quietus) and praised for remaining “as powerful a presence as she ever was” (Pitchfork), Hersh continues to create music that is uncompromising, deeply personal, and wholly unique.