House Tornado

by Throwing Muses

House Tornado cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 March 1988
  • Label: 4AD
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:26
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Tanya Donelly, Gary Smith, Kristin Hersh, David Narcizo, Rich Gilbert, Leslie Langston

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Driven by the intricate, dueling songwriting of Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly, the band's second full-length refined their knotty, unpredictable brand of alternative rock. The compositions are characterized by sudden tempo shifts, jagged guitar interplay, and intensely surreal, dream-logic lyrical narratives. It stands as a mesmerizingly complex achievement that deeply influenced the subsequent wave of nineties indie rock.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, uncommon-time-signatures, complex, dissonant, female-fronted, guitars, atmospheric, jangly

Tracklist

  1. Colder (3:10)
  2. Mexican Women (2:46)
  3. River (3:50)
  4. Juno (1:54)
  5. Marriage Tree (3:01)
  6. Run Letter (5:04)
  7. Saving Grace (2:39)
  8. Drive (3:27)
  9. Downtown (4:05)
  10. Giant (3:52)
  11. Walking In The Dark (4:38)

Credits

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