Your Ghost

"Your Ghost"
Single by Kristin Hersh
from the album Hips and Makers
B-side
ReleasedJanuary 10, 1994 (1994-01-10)
StudioStable Sound (Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
Length3:16
Label
SongwriterKristin Hersh
Producers
Kristin Hersh singles chronology
"Your Ghost"
(1994)		 "A Loon"
(1994)

"Your Ghost" is the first track from American singer Kristin Hersh's debut solo studio album, Hips and Makers. The song is about overcoming the death of a close friend and features additional backing vocals from Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Released as a single in January 1994, "Your Ghost" reached number one in Iceland, became a top-30 hit in Belgium and the Netherlands, and reached number 45 on the UK Singles Chart.

Release and reception

The song was released as a single on January 10, 1994. It reached number 45 on the UK Singles Chart. It was voted in at number 41 on Australian radio station Triple J's Hottest 100 for 1994.

Paste named it one of the best 100 songs of the 1990s and said, "you can feel [the] intended intimacy in every second: it sounds like something not meant to be overheard. Everything about it is spectral—the way Hersh's voice trembles at the edges, Jane Scarpantoni's cello curling through it like a draft under a door, the sense that you're eavesdropping on someone alone in an empty house."

Music video

According to Filmmaker magazine, the music video for the song was directed by Katherine Dieckmann and is an homage to Maya Deren's groundbreaking 1943 experimental film Meshes of the Afternoon.

Track listing

  1. "Your Ghost"
  2. "The Key"
  3. "Uncle June and Aunt Kiyoti"
  4. "When the Levee Breaks"

Charts

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United Kingdom January 10, 1994
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
 4AD
United States January 11, 1994 Radio Sire

References

  1. 1 2 Davies, Barbara (January 22, 1994). "Is Radio Ready to Meet Hersh's 'Makers'?". Billboard. Vol. 106, no. 4. p. 16.
  2. 1 2 "Single Releases". Music Week. January 8, 1994. p. 15.
  3. ↑ "Search". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  4. ↑ Casey Epstein-Gross. "The 100 greatest songs of the 1990s". Paste.
  5. ↑ "50 Most Important Independent Films", Filmmaker Magazine, 1996, retrieved February 15, 2008
  6. ↑ "Kristin Hersh – Your Ghost" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  7. ↑ "Íslenski Listinn Topp 40 (24.–30.3. '94)". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). March 24, 1994. p. 20. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Kristin Hersh – Your Ghost" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Official Singles Chart on 22/1/1994 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 28, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Árslistinn 1994". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). January 2, 1995. p. 16. Retrieved November 28, 2022.