Kirstin Hersh will release new album Possible Dust Clouds on October 5 via Fire Records. The Throwing Muses leader says she has made "not a live record but an alive record" where she, for the first time in a while, brought in other musicians to play with her.

I wanted to recreate the impact of a show. Unpretentious, with a muscular song body running through the room. This entailed seriously messing with both extremes of the sonic spectrum: the fundamentals (basics, rhythm section, roots) but also with the detail (percussion, high end, effects). These two strata asked to sound eccentric: atonal and arhythmic. So when the song body runs through the room, it’s not wholly unfamiliar, just dressed oddly enough to make you look twice. Dark sunshine, still cool. Hopefully, anyway.

The first single off the album is "No Shade In Shadow," which features some nicely scuzzy guitars and does indeed feel alive. You can stream that, and read more of Kristin's thoughts on the new album, below.

Kristin Hersh - Possible Dust Clouds tracklist:

1-LAX

2-NO SHADE IN SHADOW

3-HALFWAY HOME

4-FOX POINT

5-LETHE

6-LOUDMOUTH

7-GIN

8-TULUM

9-BREATHE IN

10-LADY GODIVA