Kristin Hersh Shares Video for New Track “Ms Haha”

Clear Pond Street Due Out September 8 through Fireplace

Jul 06, 2023

By Kat Ramkumar

Images by Pete Mellekas

Throwing Muses’ frontwoman Kristin Hersh has simply shared a music video for her new track, “Ms Haha,” which is the second launch from her upcoming solo album, Clear Pond Street. This LP, which was self-produced at Steady Sound Studio, is due out September 8 through Fireplace. The music video was directed by Jonny Sanders. Watch it beneath adopted by Clear Pond Street’s tracklist and canopy art work, in addition to upcoming tour dates.

Of “Ms Haha,” Hersh says in a press launch: “Mr. Bones is my man and Ms Haha is me, ripped off from a Truman Capote story. So heavy. Love is goofy gravity.”

The music video mirrors her themes, that includes manipulated, distorted visuals of Gersh on guitar with totally different parts. Of its making, Sanders says: “Kristin lives in New Orleans and I stay in London so we needed to work out a means of her taking pictures a efficiency and me reinterpreting that. After talking together with her about her recording course of and the way audio could be revamped and effected, I needed to make use of a few of these methods however in a visible means. I took her footage and re-filmed all of it utilizing a projector onto numerous textures and, extra apparently, a method referred to as ‘Pepper’s Ghost’ from the mid nineteenth century. The movie is mirrored in a 45-degree clear display to supply an virtually holographic impact, giving it 3D house and distortion. This was positioned inside glass objects to additional manipulate the picture.”

Clear Pond Street is a stripped down look into intimate moments of Hersh’s life. It pays homage to all of the little items that make up the idea of residing. Of the LP, Hersh says: “Some data demand to be made. And you understand that is the case when the songs operate as programs in a physique. I octavized an acoustic baritone because the skeleton, cellos are the lungs, a Nashville-strung Collings and glockenspiel had been the fingertips feeling round on this weird-ass darkish house, and drums are at all times your coronary heart, in fact…however the vocals are an odd narrator right here. A narrator misplaced within the story, of all issues, extra like eyes.”

Clear Pond Street Tracklist:

1. Bewitched Reruns
2. Ms Haha
3. Dandelion
4. Constance Road
5. Thank You, Nook Blight
6. St. Valentine’s Day Bloodbath
7. Reflections on the Motive Energy of Fireplace
8. Eyeshine
9. Palmetto
10. Tunnels

Kristin Hersh Tour Dates:
September 27—Exeter, UK—The Phoenix Arts Centre
September 29—Ramsgate, UK—St George’s Church
September 30—Oxford, UK—Florence Park Group Centre
October 1—Liverpool, UK—Philharmonic
October 3—Bristol, UK—Unusual Brew
October 4—Cardiff, UK—Acapella Membership
October 5—Studying, UK—South Road Arts Centre
October 6—Cambridge, UK—Storey’s Subject
October 8—Norwich, UK—Arts Centre
October 9—Nottingham, UK—Metronome
October 11—Leeds, UK—Mill Hill Chapel
October 12—Manchester, UK—St Michael’s Ancoats
October 14—Glasgow, UK—Mono
October 15—Edinburgh, UK—Summerhall (Dissection Room)
October 17—Newcastle, UK—Cluny
October 18—Hebden Bridge, UK—Trades Membership
October 19—Kilkenny, Eire—Cleere’s
October 20—Galway, Eire—Roisin Dubh
October 21—Dublin, Eire—Pavilion Theatre
October 22—Bangor, UK—The Court docket Home
October 23—Dundalk, Eire—The Spirit Retailer
October 24—Kendal, UK—The Outdated Brewery
October 25—Leek, UK—Foxlowe Arts Centre
October 26—Birmingham, UK—Hare And Hounds
October 28—London, UK—St John at Bethnal Inexperienced
October 29—Brighton, UK—Komedia
November 2—Brisbane, Australia—Black Bear Lodge
November 3—Canberra, Australia—Smith’s Various
November 5—St Kilda, Australia—Nemo Music Corridor
November 8—Melbourne, Australia—Northcote Social Membership
November 9—Newton, Australia—Vanguard
November 10—Katoomba, Australia—Baroque Room Assist Underneath the Radar on Patreon.