Purgatory / Paradise, by Throwing Muses

Purgatory / Paradise

by Throwing Muses

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eldudowski in which Kristin and the boys sashay into Bob Pollard's backyard and erupt scintillant genius all up in our faces. why have 10 bangers when you can have 32. Favorite track: Sleepwalking 2.

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1.	Smoky Hands 1 01:09	buy track
2.	Morning Birds 1 03:27	buy track
3.	Sleepwalking 2 01:05	buy track
4.	Sunray Venus 03:35	buy track
5.	Cherry Candy 1 01:04	buy track
6.	Film 01:48	buy track
7.	Opiates 03:54	buy track
8.	Cherry Candy 2 00:55	buy track
9.	Freesia 02:41	buy track
10.	Curtains 1 01:07	buy track
11.	Triangle Quanitico 01:15	buy track
12.	Morning Birds 2 02:00	buy track
13.	Lazy Eye 03:20	buy track
14.	Blurry 1 02:25	buy track
15.	Folding Fire 2 00:35	buy track
16.	Slippershell 04:46	buy track
17.	Bluff 01:01	buy track
18.	Blurry 2 01:31	buy track
19.	Terra Nova 02:37	buy track
20.	Walking Talking 01:02	buy track
21.	Milan 04:25	buy track
22.	Curtains 2 00:43	buy track
23.	Folding Fire 1 02:21	buy track
24.	Static 02:40	buy track
25.	Clark's Nutcracker 02:44	buy track
26.	Dripping Trees 01:48	buy track
27.	Sleepwalking 1 02:23	buy track
28.	Smoky Hands 2 00:28	buy track
29.	Speedbath 02:08	buy track
30.	Quick 02:34	buy track
31.	Dripping Trees 2 01:24	buy track
32.	Glass Cats 02:23	buy track

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Originally released in 2013, ‘Purgatory/Paradise’ gets reissued for the first time on double vinyl. Emerging ten years from a hiatus, it’s a formidable 32 track opus of tangible bliss from the alt-rock heroes.

Devised as a book with essays by Kristin Hersh with art by drummer Dave Narcizo, it’s a fractured album about loss, most tracks are short, broken, some are reprises. It includes ‘Milan’ about a neighbourhood in New Orleans where Hersh’s house was destroyed by hurricane Katrina, ‘Static’ that deals with a close loss of a close friend and ‘Terra Nova’ an ode to the band’s first break up.

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released August 29, 2020

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