Blast From The Past - Kristin Hersh and Your Ghost

An hallucinatory and haunting melody from 1994, Your Ghost sees Kristin Hirsh (kooky and genius-touched) hanging out her ghostly demons once again on her acoustic washing line. This song features Michael Stipe (from the boy-band REM) poetically dueting and echoing the ghost and subject of Ms Hirsh's surreal and tormented insomnia. (I suggest putting down that coffee she's moaning about as an aid to a good night's rest). I so remember listening to Your Ghost - time and time and time again; as is the want of an obsessive music fan who has discovered the perfect song, intricately unadorned. This song is endless, it flows faultlessly, steers eerily and creeps caressingly from a perspective so impassionate (reminds me of Plath) and yet full of emotion. It sings truths, it is tangible and it plainly and painfully makes a difference. Simply gorgeous.