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. Red Heaven
by: Throwing Muses
Release Date October 02, 1998
Not the easiest of Muses records to listen to, 'Red Heaven' sees a Tanya Donelly-free band moving to far heavier territory than the previous year's 'The Real Ramona', without yet molding a harder sound in the poppier forms of the later 'University' and 'Limbo' albums. However, it is precisely this uncertainty as to how to take a rock direction that makes for some of the most effective tracks the group ever recorded. 'Pearl' and 'Furious' almost defy genre: the former switches abruptly from acoustic strum to deranged metal, while the latter is a great big smouldering metallic volcano of heavy guitars and Hersch's vocals at their most pained and rasping. More straighforward, but no less spectacular is 'Dio', the magnificently raw ... Read More:
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