Genre: Dream pop
Places I remember: Margie's brother's collection.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Song to the Siren
Gear costume: Barramundi
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: Song to the Siren
Gear costume: Barramundi
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7
Active compensatory factors: This Mortal Coil wasn't really a band - more a loose grouping of musicians put together by 4AD's label boss as an experiment. The 'group' included two members of The Cocteau Twins - Elizabeth Fraser and Simon Raymonde. Howard DeVoto also appears on one song.
Active compensatory factors: This Mortal Coil wasn't really a band - more a loose grouping of musicians put together by 4AD's label boss as an experiment. The 'group' included two members of The Cocteau Twins - Elizabeth Fraser and Simon Raymonde. Howard DeVoto also appears on one song.
Turned out to be a great experiment as a series of covers and original songs were chosen and performed by a variety of different voices.
The AllMusic review makes a good point about how the album helped 4AD evolve their signature sound - a heavily reverbed wash of treated guitars and atmospheric keyboards with vocals treated as another instrument in an amorphous wash of sound.
That's certainly the sound conjured up by the musicians on It'll End in Tears.
Where do they all belong? A one off in my collection. Apparently this is the best (a cult favourite even) of the three albums under the This Mortal Coil name.
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