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Rhode Island indie rock legends Throwing Muses<\/a> will reissue their long-out-of-print (and off streaming) self-titled debut this December, in honor of its 40th anniversary. The new edition of Throwing Muse<\/em>s<\/a>, due December 11 on 4AD, celebrates the first full-length album by the first American band ever signed by the label, a major inflection point in its history.<\/p>\n The quartet of of\u00a0vocalist Kristin Hersh, guitarist-vocalist Tanya Donelly, bassist Leslie\u00a0Langston and drummer David Narcizo were still teenagers when they released Throwing Muses<\/em> in 1986. The album largely drew inspiration from a car accident that left a 16-year-old Hersh, the band\u2019s primary lyricist, with a rod in her skull. In the aftermath, she says she began hallucinating songs like the snarling tracks Throwing Muses would eventually release.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t even remember what it was like to hear a song that didn\u2019t grab my face and shout at it,\u201d Hersh wrote in her 2010 memoir Rat Girl<\/em>. \u201cMust\u2019ve been soothing. But this is electrifying.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n After 4AD signed Throwing Muses, the label\u2019s direction shifted towards American alternative rock, exemplified by their signing of the Pixies in 1987. Throwing Muses went on to release seven albums and two EPs on 4AD. Their most LP was 2025\u2019s Moonlight Concessions<\/em><\/a>. The group has also spawned multiple side projects, including 50FootWave<\/a> and Lakuna<\/a>.<\/p>\n Revisit Katherine St. Asaph\u2019s Sunday Review of Throwing Muses<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n