50 Foot Wave
50 Foot Wave took form after the release of Throwing Muses' second self-titled album, in 2003. Though the trio did contain two former members of that group -- tireless singer/songwriter/guitarist Kristin Hersh and bassist Bernard Georges -- an effort was made from the beginning to make the separation of the two groups very distinct. Hersh and her bandmates (rounded out by drummer Rob Ahlers) vowed to play around 100 shows a year and release an EP every nine months. The first EP came out in early 2004 and was more direct and hard-hitting than anything Hersh ha...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. 50 Foot Wave is the band is fronted by Kristin Hersh. Kristin Hersh spent more than a decade previously playing with Throwing Muses, releasing several solo albums as well. In 2003, she launched the more electric guitar-oriented 50 Foot Wave. Hersh has described 50 Foot Wave's music as "having a lot of math in it," while also calling it less emotionally and musically "tangled" than some of her past Throwing Muses work. Pressed on colored vinyl.
LP $16.99
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50 Foot Wave's plan to produce an EP every nine months is sort of thrown out of whack by Golden Ocean. Roughly nine months after the first release, they instead return with a whole album of songs, three of which are reprised from that disc -- so fans probably see this as a new EP with bonus tracks they already have. (New major-label distribution is likely [ read more ]
MP3 $10.49
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