The Grotto

by

Kristin Hersh

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It's taken me a while to like this album. I've been trying to listen to it, but the Throwing Muses album released on the same day has been played many more times than this album. I am really starting to like this album a lot.

I didn't like "Strange Angels" the first time I heard it because it wasn't "Hips & Makers." But it really grew on me after seeing Kristin live several years after "Strange Angels" had been released and after "Sunny Border Blue" was released. I think this album is going to be the same for me it will grow more on me and I'm sure it will become another Kristin favorite.

This album is taking it's time to grow on me. It's very different from "Sunny Border Blue." It has a deeper, more emotional edge to it.

Kristin's albums all have to be accepted in their own way. I can be in the mood to listen to Kristin, but it has to be a particular album depending on my mood. They all seem to be very telling of her life at the time she wrote the album. I love all of her albums, each in their own individual way. Sort of the way you love people - you can't love all of them as a collective, they are individuals and must be loved that way.

The violins on "Deep Wilson" give me the chills, they are amazing. There is something about the way that they sound that gives me a very odd sensation in my body. Like they make me shiver but not exactly shiver. Sort of flutter but not in a fairy sort of way. I don't know how to describe it.

If you are a Kristin fan! Buy this album. Don't dismiss it through the first few listens. Give it time and you'll grow to love it with each listen.