50 Foot Wave - Staring Into The Sun
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KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
50 Foot Wave - "Staring Into the Sun," a 2022 single on Fire Records.
This week's Song of the Day were selected by KEXP DJ Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time, in honor of International Women's Month. Re-listen to our kick-off day of programming, and explore articles and live sessions from some of our favorite female artists here.
Two years after the long-awaited 10th studio album from Throwing Muses, frontwoman Kristin Hersh is back with a new record from her heavier side project 50 Foot Wave. Titled Black Pearl, the record is out April 15th and follows the 2016 EP Bath White.
Our Song of the Day is Black Pearl’s lead single “Staring Into the Sun.” Joined by Throwing Muses member Bernard Georges on bass and drummer Rob Ahler, Hersh creates a massively lush and gloomy soundscape for their first new music in six years. Featuring throbbing, droney, distortion-filled riffs, “Staring Into the Sun” is 50 Foot Wave at their most metal.
Kristin Hersh is doing a long run of solo shows starting this March at SXSW and then jumping over to the UK and Europe into early Summer. Check out a full list of dates here and watch Hersh’s KEXP in-studio session from 2017 at the link below.
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| 0:30.0 | I live with you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 0:50.8 | Only at the end you take me |
| 1:02.2 | Clash away at a bright Christian number of parties |
| 1:11.8 | Clash away at a bright Christian number of parties |
| 1:19.8 | Since the last time I've been in Christchurch |
| 1:24.8 | I've been going all the way |
| 1:32.8 | So to be here I can see you in my heart |
| 1:42.8 | Only at the end you take me |
| 1:47.8 | It's getting clearer now |
| 1:54.8 | It's getting clearer now |
| 2:10.8 | It's getting clearer now |
| 2:16.8 | You are not a pacifist |
| 2:22.8 | You are not feeling |
| 2:27.8 | You are just changing |
| 2:32.8 | Stranger I've ever said |
| 2:45.8 | You are not a pacifist |
| 3:08.8 | You are not feeling |
| 3:15.8 | You are just changing |
| 3:21.8 | Stranger I've ever said |
| 3:32.8 | You are not a pacifist |
| 3:37.8 | You are not a pacifist |
| 3:44.8 | You are not a pacifist |
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