Writer Neil Gaiman debuts his first music album with an Australian string quartet

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From The Sandman and Lucifer to Good Omens, Neil Gaiman has written novels and comics that have been adapted into plays, TV series and films. Now, he's setting his sights on music.

For his debut studio album Signs of Life, the British author joins Australia's FourPlay String Quartet in an eclectic blend of classical and indie rock tunes with poetry and prose.

"I loved them. I loved the imagination. I loved the wit," Gaiman tells NPR's Morning Edition, recalling his first collaboration with the quartet in a 2010 Sydney Opera House reading of his novella The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains.

Their new collaboration released Friday is a meeting of unconventional minds between Gaiman — whose writing is often so idiosyncratic it's impossible to pin down — and FourPlay, an indie rock band of sorts that happens to be playing the traditional string quartet instruments of two violins, a viola and a cello. The musicians got their start performing covers by artists as varied as Radiohead, Metallica and Leonard Cohen.