Kristin Hersh’s Sugar On Blackstone: a hushed hometown record
Kristin Hersh returns with Sugar On Blackstone — a sparse, hometown record about childhood, loss and the small consolations that follow.
Kristin Hersh’s new solo album, Sugar On Blackstone, is a low-lit return to place: childhood parks, Providence streets and the knotty work of surviving grief. The details here come from Hersh’s Bandcamp interview with Daily Bandcamp.
It’s her twelfth solo record and it favours hush over howl — cello from Pete Harvey, drums by Rob Ahlers only where they belong, and guitars that feel quietly psychedelic. Hersh sings with a rougher timbre and a songwriter’s refusal to sentimentalise; she told the interviewer the songs almost wrote themselves as a hometown set of memories.
There’s also a hard current through the album: Hersh names the 2025 death of her friend Domonick Knight as shaping parts of the record (interview at Daily Bandcamp). We like this: restraint that still feels risky, an old voice unafraid to be small and honest rather than loud.
Read the interview: Daily Bandcamp — Kristin Hersh Comes Home.
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