Hips and Makers is the debut solo album by Kristin Hersh, best known as the primary singer and songwriter of the band Throwing Muses.

Other credited musicians include Jane Scarpantoni on cello and Michael Stipe of R.E.M., who sings backing vocals on the opening track, "Your Ghost".

"It's personal, literally so", Hersh said, "full of skin and coffee, shoes and sweat and babies and sex and food and stores – just stupid stuff that's really a big deal.

"[12] Spin's Simon Reynolds raved that "[a]t once oppressive and impressive, Hips and Makers signals a rejuvenation for Hersh's muse",[13] while Rolling Stone's Stephanie Zacharek called it "[l]uminous, alluring and slightly menacing".

"[15] In a retrospective review, AllMusic critic Richie Unterberger noted that the material was of an "intensely personal nature" and offered with "a despairing and introspective tone that fails to submerge her considerable inner strength and fortitude".