{"product_id":"moonlight-concessions","title":"Moonlight Concessions","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtrade.com\/browse\/albums-of-the-year-2025\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlbums of the Year 2025: #34\n\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoonlight Concessions\u003c\/i\u003e goes back to basics, a return for Throwing Muses to their esoteric off-kilter best courtesy of Kristin’s pin-sharp sketches and their suitably abrasive musical arrangements. The album follows their acclaimed \u003ci\u003eSun Racket\u003c\/i\u003e from 2020, a heady set filled with tough and tender tales spiked with surreal imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced by Kristin Hersh at Steve Rizzo's Stable Sound Studio in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, \u003ci\u003eMoonlight Concessions\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of snippets from everyday life writ large - think Raymond Carver Short Cuts, overheard conversations, recounted happenings and telling one-liners, all sewed together to illustrate the times as they slowly mature, fully peppered with original Muses’ vim and vigour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Drugstore Drastic’ is a kerbside soliloquy caught en route to a more alluring rendezvous. Built on a brisk acoustic strum with a guitar sub-melody underpinning proceedings, it’s an unfolding tale of social awareness from a blurred sub-conscious. ‘Summer Of Love’ began as a bet with a guy for a dollar that revolved around the idea that the seasons don’t change us. The album opener, it’s a haunting baroque overture, bowed and brooding. ‘Libretto’s strings offset the acoustic ambience, the hot and cold of longing at the very heart of it, a thematic driver filed with warmth in a safe haven lubricated by tequila.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in the differing South Coast environs of The Gulf Of Mexico and Southern California, \u003ci\u003eMoonlight Concessions\u003c\/i\u003e pulls from the star clusters that light both, generating optimism and hope in varying degrees. Hersh explains, “In New Orleans the stars look greenish-blue, as it’s below sea level and swamp-lit. But on Moonlight Beach, they glow icy white. All these songs were written in these two glowy places, which helped our sonic technique find itself.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fire Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Album of the Year Edition","offer_id":55803755888971,"sku":"R5516-4459","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Yellow | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50998070739275,"sku":"2237029","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP - Black | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":51445205369163,"sku":"2237030","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50998070346059,"sku":"2237028","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Cream","offer_id":51580726247755,"sku":"R5516-7135","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50998069952843,"sku":"2237027","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Throwing_Muses_-_Moonlight_Concessions_4ede527f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734779542","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/moonlight-concessions","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}