Throwing Muses- Debut S/Titled LP (Side Two)

Throwing Muses Debut S/Titled LP (Side Two) 1986 "America (She Can't Say No)" 0:00 "Fear" 2:46 "Stand Up" 5:29 "Soul Soldier" 8:23 "Delicate Cutters" 13:33 Their 1986 debut album. Released on British independent label 4AD. This was the first album by an American band released on 4AD, which had concentrated primarily on British-based acts up to this point. The release marked a shift in the label's direction; a year later 4AD would sign Pixies based in part of the band's connection to Throwing Muses, and by the mid-1990s much of the label's roster was made up of American bands. AllMusic calls the album a "powerful debut" whose "startling collision of punk energy, folky melodicism & Kristin Hersh's mercurial voice & lyrics...puts the work of most self-consciously 'tortured' artists to shame." The review praises the record's "fluid, effortless emotional shifts"—also described as "violent, vibrant mood swings". The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Spin called it, "a record of dense textures, guitar splatter and belljar lyrics. The fragmented sound of Throwing Muses, a college girl's dining hall conversation set to antagonistic electric screeching, was painful, self-loathing, man-love-hating, ". #throwingmuses #1986 #selftitled #debutalbum #sidetwo