New Music: Dark Eyed Junco

           

Kristin Hersh has announced new solo album Sugar on Blackstone  due out August 18 via Fire Records. She produced it herself and made it with regular collaborators Rob Ahlers on drums and cellist Pete Harvey. The album draws on themes of memory, home and displacement, with Hersh revisiting the home and neighborhood of her adolescence. The first single from the album is "Dark Eyed Junco," a typically eerie Hersh number.