Title: Crazy Again
Product review: Throwing Muses shares more than a title with their eponymous debut. It's just as scattershot and disjointed as that overrated classic. I enjoyed Kristen Hersh's commercial struggle on House Tornado and The Real Ramona: she wanted the pop market to kowtow to her freaky fragmentation. The fight ended a thrilling draw. Before that, she didn't seem merely unhinged or abrasively inspired: she sounded crazy. There are times when the thrashing time changes and trilling rants work: "Civil Disobedience" creates meaning from its abrupt rhythms since the song's about defiance. "Pandora's Box" strums its seductive melody into a neo-blues once the evil box is opened. They make sense. Otherwise, the tracks - though well played - feel arbitrary; a ... band playing with intricate tempos because they can. The best thing I can say about Throwing Muses is that it gets better the more you play it. The worst it that, now that I've written this review, I'm not going to play it all that much.
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