Kristin Hersh - Wyatt At The Coyote Palace

First released in 2016 as a CD and essay collection, Kristin Hersh’s Wyatt At The Coyote Palace returns to vinyl with this new black vinyl pressing, expanding on the Throwing Muses frontwoman’s reputation as one of indie rock’s most fearless voices.

A sonically rich and fragmented record, Wyatt At The Coyote Palace finds Hersh performing nearly every instrument herself—guitar, bass, drums, piano, horns, and cello—crafting music that is both deeply intimate and unflinchingly raw. The album reflects on “her life’s most perception-altering junctures” (NPR) with stories that blur the line between memoir and art, offering “arguments for the value of unapologetic individuality” (Pitchfork).

Themes of loss and renewal course through the songs, with a sense of mysticism and wonder threaded against the inevitability of endings. As The Wire noted, Hersh’s music “consoles you through its insolubility, comforts you by jabbing you in the chest and letting you know how complex the struggle is, how inaccessible we are to each other but just how universal our pain can be.”

A vital entry in Hersh’s catalog, Wyatt At The Coyote Palace stands as both a personal reckoning and a bold artistic statement.