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Throwing Muses: The Visit
All things are relative, I suppose, but the rock-oriented Red Heaven is my least favourite Throwing Muses album. Despite this I still find it wonderful – it was after all the run up to University, their most critically and commercially successful release.
The Visit lands suddenly with its ‘da da da da’ vocal break and Bernard George’s typical walking bass. The vocal melody is deceptively simple relying on support from Kristin Hersh’s cooing backing vocals and driving guitars. Consequently the song appears to revolve rather than progress, but the breaks and the single drop give it more life than one might expect.
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