Fresh off last month's US tour with her band Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh is back with news of her 12th solo album, Sugar on Blackstone, coming September 18 via Fire Records.

She's also shared a new song "Dark Eyed Junco," a name she borrowed from the North American sparrow to give to her brother. "He was a dark-eyed junco and I was a light-eyed weirdo," she says in a press release for the album. "We’d play basketball until after dark then, when we couldn’t even see the hoop anymore, so that we didn’t have to go home. After our stepfather moved in, it wasn’t a home anymore.”

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Sugar on Blackstone is Hersh's first new solo album in 3 years and her second in a row to be named after a thoroughfare, with the title referring to Blackstone Boulevard in her teenage hometown of Providence, RI – a place she's since moved back to and forms the emotional backbone of the record. The 11-track LP features her 50FOOTWAVE bandmate Rob Ahlers on drums and cellist Pete Harvey, whose work was all over the last Throwing Muses record, Moonlight Concessions, and includes recent single "Sundial," which dropped towards the end of March.

Sugar on Blackstone is released September 18. Pre-order here. Tracklisting below:

1. Dark Eyed Junco
2. Moths
3. Ticking
4. Silver Beach
5. Pink Nightgowns
6. 101 Run
7. Sundial
8. Snow White Lies
9. Dom In Orange
10. '72 Stingray
11. Samson

As previously reported, Hersh has an extensive UK/EU tour mapped out for the fall. Check those dates out below:

09/26 Birmingham, UK @ All Saints Church
09/27 Bedford, UK @ Esquires
09/28 Leicester, UK @ Internationale
09/29 Oxford, UK @ Holywell Music Room
09/30 Cambridge, UK @ The Portland Arms
10/01 Manchester, UK @ St Michael’s
10/02 Manchester, UK @ St Michael’s
10/03 Liverpool, UK @ Philharmonic Music Room
10/04 Edinburgh, UK @ Pleasance Theatre
10/05 Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny
10/06 Newcastle, UK @ The Cluny
10/07 Belfast, UK @ Black Box
10/08 Dundalk, IE @ Spirit Store
10/09 Sligo, IE @ Hawk’s Well Theatre
10/10 Kilkenny, IE @ Cleeres
10/11 Kerry, IE @ Skelper Quane's
10/12 Galway, IE @ Róisín Dubh
10/13 Cork, IE @ Cypress Avenue
10/14 Glasgow, UK @ Cottiers Theatre
10/15 Hebden Bridge, UK @ Trades Club
10/16 Leek, UK @ Foxlowe Arts Centre
10/17 York, UK @ National Centre for Early Music
10/18 Bristol, UK @ Folk House
10/20 Exeter, UK @ Phoenix
10/21 Cardiff, UK @ Acapela Studios
10/22 Brighton, UK @ The Old Market
10/23 London, UK @ The Lexington
10/24 London, UK @ The Lexington
10/25 London, UK @ The Lexington
10/28 Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli Vredenburg
10/29 Paris, FR @ Le Chinois
10/30 Haarlem, NL @ PHIL
10/31 Ramsgate, UK @ St George's Church
11/01 Dublin, IE @ Pavilion Theatre

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