This Mortal Coil - Blood on CD

Description

Landing at the start of a new decade, after much had happened in both producer Ivo Watts-Russell's life and with his 4AD label, the final part of the This Mortal Coil trilogy, Blood (1991), felt like a perfect conclusion. Meticulously orchestrated, vocalists Alison Limerick, Deirdre and Louise Rutkowski return from the second album with Caroline Crawley (Shelleyan Orphan / Babacar) and 4AD signees Heidi Berry, Kim Deal (Pixies / The Breeders), Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses / The Breeders / Belly) and Pieter Nooten all enlisted. Review This Mortal Coil, the subject of a new comprehensive box set, was in the public eye an encapsulation of 4AD's sound and style spread out over three albums and associated singles and one-offs. And though founder Ivo Watts-Russell didn't want This Mortal Coil to be seen as a label vanity project, there was nothing more classically "4AD" from a listener's point of view. Despite the presence of so many performers not signed to the label and the fact that nothing else on 4AD actually sounded like This Mortal Coil, nothing else spoke more to the idea of what the label seemed to be --Pitchfork 9.0 Luminously remastered --Mojo Still infinitely seductive, exquisite and real… This remarkable, graceful music - wholly mind-altering and hallucinatory without recourse to stimulants - is narcissistic bliss, a requisite standby for shutting out the world and basking in splendid isolation. Just turn out the lights, plug in and indulge.

Track Listings
1 The Lacemaker
2 Mr. Somewhere
3 Andialu
4 With Tomorrow
5 Loose Joints
6 You And Your Sister
7 Nature's Way
8 I Come And Stand At Every Door
9 Bitter
10 Baby Ray Baby
11 Several Times
12 The Lacemaker II
13 Late Night
14 Ruddy And Wretched
15 Help Me Lift You Up
16 Carolyn's Song
17 D. D. And E.
18 'Til I Gain Control Again
19 Dreams Are Like Water
20 I Am The Cosmos
21 (Nothing But) Blood