Throwing Muses: The Real Ramona
Simon Reynolds, Spin, May 1991
FOR SOME OF US, the Throwing Muses' 1986 debut was one of those records, the kind that leaves you feeling your life has been changed in ways you can't define. Women friends have testified that it was the first time they encountered a purely female music of rage and bewilderment that spoke directly to them. Where male angst is directed outward at the world, female violence is implosive, turned inward to take shape in obsessive symptoms like anorexia or "delicate selfcutting.''
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