This Mortal Coil - Late Night

Between 1984 and 1991 This Mortal Coil released three moody masterpieces, It’ll End In Tears (1984), Filigree And Shadow (1986) and Blood (1991). The brainchild of 4AD ‘s co-founder and tastemaker Ivo Watts-Russell, the plan seems to have been to take lost classics from the sixties and seventies and reinterpret them within the circle of his arty contemporary musical friends, mainly on the 4AD label, Watts-Russell acting as musical director. The releases kept the 4AD tradition of ‘album cover as art’ care of Vaughn Oliver from design gurus 23 Envelope. Here we have Caroline Crawley from Bournemouth’s Shelleyan Orphan singing Syd Barrett’s Late Night from Barrett’s 1970 album, The Madcap Laughs. The experiment was mostly successful; the songs became atmospheres of melancholy and sadness.

Ripped from a compact disc promo EP released on 4AD Records (TMC 1CD) in 1991 to MP3 @ 320kbps

This Mortal Coil; Late Night (Promo)

1.       Late Night

2.       You And Your Sister

3.       I Come And Stand At Every Door

4.       With Tomorrow

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