Alison Mosshart announces solo spoken word album with lead piece "Returning The Screw"

Mosshart has shared details of her Sound Wheel spoken word album today alongside releasing the lead piece, "Returning The Screw".

"Returning The Screw" arrives after Mosshart's solo singles "It Ain't Water" and "Rise".

Consequence of Sound reports that a statement explains that Sound Wheel is about "cars, rock n’ roll, and love. It’s an album about America, performance, and life on the road… about fender bender portraiture, story tellin’ tire tracks, and the never-ending search for the spirit under the hood."

Sound Wheel will accompany Mosshart's CAR MA book - a collection of art, photographs, short stories, and poetry.

Mosshart says, "When I was writing CAR MA, there were some passages I struggled to get right, and I got in the practice of reading them out loud and recording them, to hear and feel where words or sentences were rubbing together wrong. I’d listen back to these recordings and they’d be real informative to me in that way. This tool I was using to help me, started feeling like this whole other angle or art form. And I started thinking it would be interesting to perform/record the whole book, not in a straight up spoken word way, but more like a sound sculpture of characters and voices and miscellaneous cut ups, no rules."