Hersh dug into her backlog of compositions for material of an intensely personal nature that she felt wouldn't be suitable for her band on her solo debut. In stark contrast to her work with Throwing Muses, Hips and Makers is almost entirely acoustic.
A live recording from 1993 and mostly featuring previously unrecorded material. Both lead performers are simply in excelsis, their vocal abilities hardly diminished by the rigors of the road - if anything, they sound even more inspired as a result
A legitimizing stunner, Split prevented the band from being lost amidst the welter of form-over function dream pop bands, breaking free of the cliches that Lush's contemporaries were clinging to. It's a fantastic record by any standard.
