So I thought the “Throwing Muses” debut album was incredibly interesting to say the least… I enjoyed the musical compositions, and there was a pretty good diversity of sound throughout the album… The most puzzling aspect, were the vocals – and the singer has a pretty nice voice or this type of music, and there were stretches where I really enjoyed what she was doing… There was however, this issue of her trying to sing differently during different portions of songs, and not every now and then, or only on particular songs – nope, she felt the need to do it multiple times, with multiple “styles”, over the course of a 3 or 4 minutes song… From my perspective, those vocal changes worked about 1/3 of the time for me, so when it worked – it really enhanced the song, but for 2/3’s of the time, it was just an incredible distraction from the song… I kept asking my self how this would have sounded if she had toned it down a bit, or saved those vocal gyrations for specific moments, but c’est la vie… Glad I listened, and like I said – it was very interesting no doubt, but at the end of the day, it’s just a 2 for me…