Kristin Hersh to Release New Album ‘Sugar on Blackstone’ on August 18, Shares "Dark Eyed Junco"

Kristin Hersh has announced new solo album Sugar on Blackstone which will be out August 18 via Fire Records. She produced it herself and made it with regular collaborators Rob Ahlers (50FOOTWAVE) on drums and cellist Pete Harvey (Throwing Muses).

The album draws on themes of memory, home and displacement, with Hersh revisiting the home and neighborhood of her adolescence. The first single from the album is “Dark Eyed Junco,” a typically eerie Hersh number. She says: “He was a ‘Dark Eyed Junco’ and I was a light-eyed weirdo. 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.”

Watch the video below.

Kristin has UK, EU and Australian dates this fall and those are listed below.

Sugar on Blackstone

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

Kristin Hersh – 2026 Tour Dates

26 Sep: All Saints Church, Birmingham, UK

27 Sep: Esquires, Bedford, UK

28 Sep: Internationale, Leicester, UK

29 Sep: Holywell Music Room, Oxford, UK

30 Sep: The Portland Arms, Cambridge, UK

01 Oct: St Michael’s, Manchester, UK

02 Oct: St Michael’s, Manchester, UK

03 Oct: Philharmonic Music Room, Liverpool, UK

04 Oct: Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, UK

05 Oct: The Cluny, Newcastle, UK

06 Oct: The Cluny, Newcastle, UK

07 Oct: Black Box, Belfast, UK

08 Oct: Spirit Store, Dundalk, Ireland

09 Oct: Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo, Ireland

10 Oct: Cleeres, Kilkenny, Ireland

11 Oct: Skelper Quane’s, Kerry, Ireland

12 Oct: Róisín Dubh, Galway, Ireland

13 Oct: Cyprus Avenue, Cork, Ireland

14 Oct: Cottiers Theatre, Glasgow, UK

15 Oct: Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, UK

16 Oct: Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, UK

17 Oct: National Centre for Early Music, York, UK

18 Oct: Folk House, Bristol, UK

20 Oct: Phoenix, Exeter, UK

21 Oct: Acapela Studios, Cardiff, UK

22 Oct: The Old Market, Brighton, UK

23 Oct: The Lexington, London, UK

24 Oct: The Lexington, London, UK

25 Oct: The Lexington, London, UK

26 Oct: De Spil, Roeselare, Belgium

27 Oct: CC Maasmechelen, Maasmechelen, Belgium

28 Oct: Tivoli Vredenburg (Cloud Nine), Utrecht, Netherlands

29 Oct: Le Chinois, Paris, France

30 Oct: PHIL, Haarlem, Netherlands

31 Oct: St George’s Church, Ramsgate, UK

01 Nov: Pavilion Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

13 Nov: Young St Tavern, Frankston, Australia

14 Nov: The Toff, Melbourne, Australia

15 Nov: The Vanguard, Sydney, Australia

20 Nov: Cave Inn. Brisbane, Australia

21 Nov: Grace Emily, Adelaide, Australia

22 Nov: Lynott’s Lounge, Perth, Australia

_Originally reported by [Brooklyn Vegan](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/kristin-hersh-announces-new-album-shares-dark-eyed-junco/)._