Songs Are Syringes: Kristin Hersh On Her Favourite Tracks | Page 11 of 14 | The Quietus

Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

To me it’s what I was trying to say about rat people like me and Gordon Gano. It’s pathetic. And that’s my favourite thing about music. If you can take pathetic and staple balls onto it, that’s what she does somehow. She’s so pure and unbroken, without losing any texture, that it breaks your heart. That’s what it is: pathetic with balls will break your heart.

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