This Mortal Coil — Blood ( May 13, 1991/Remastered. Oct. 26, 2018) |

This Mortal Coil — Blood ( May 13, 1991/Remastered. Oct. 26, 2018)
Location: London, UK
Recording Location:
• Blackwing Studios, London, England
• Pallidium Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland
Album release: October 26, 2018
Record Label: AD
Duration: 76:15
Tracks:
LP 1
01 The Lace Maker 4:06
02 Mr. Somewhere 2:52
03 Andialu 3:03
04 With Tomorrow 2:40
05 Loose Joints 2:26
06 You and Your Sister 3:14
07 Nature’s Way 3:19
08 I Come and Stand at Every Door 3:54
09 Bitter 6:25
10 Baby Ray Baby 2:13
11 Several Times 3:12
LP 2
12 The Lacemaker II 1:24
13 Late Night 3:03
14 Ruddy and Wretched 3:15
15 Help Me Lift You Up 5:06
16 Carolyn’s Song 3:47
17 D.D. and E. 0:47
18 ’Til I Gain Control Again 4:43
19 Dreams Are Like Water 8:37
20 I Am the Cosmos 4:05
21 (Nothing But) Blood 4:04
Credits:
↑↓★↑↓ Dominic Appleton Vocals
↑↓★↑↓ Gini Ball Violin
↑↓★↑↓ Syd Barrett Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Chris Bell Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Heidi Berry Guest Artist, Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ Randy California Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Grant Clarke Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Caroline Crawley Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ Rodney Crowell Composer
↑↓★↑↓ J. Davis Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Kim Deal Guest Artist, Vocals
↑↓★↑↓ Tanya Donelly Guest Artist, Vocals
↑↓★↑↓ Tim Freeman Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ John Fryer Composer, Engineer, Producer, Programming
↑↓★↑↓ Martin Fryer Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Anne Garrigues Vocals
↑↓★↑↓ Nigel Grierson Photography
↑↓★↑↓ Sally Herbert Strings
↑↓★↑↓ Nazim Hikmet Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Ikuko Kozu Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ Alison Limerick Guest Artist, Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ Martin McCarrick Cello, Composer, Strings
↑↓★↑↓ Pieter Nooten Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Vaughan Oliver Design
↑↓★↑↓ Jocelyn Pook trings
↑↓★↑↓ Rain Parade Drums, Guest Artist
↑↓★↑↓ David Roback Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Deirdre Rutkowski Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ Louise Rutkowski Vocals
↑↓★↑↓ Gus Shaw Mastering
↑↓★↑↓ Sonia Slaney Strings
↑↓★↑↓ Sonia Slany Strings
↑↓★↑↓ Jon Turner Engineer, Piano, Programming
↑↓★↑↓ James Walters Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Ivo Watts~Russell Composer, Producer
↑↓★↑↓ Jimmy Williams Guitar
About album:
≈ …remastered audio made from the original analogue studio tapes by the late John Dent.
Review by Stewart Mason; Score: ****½
★ The third and final album by This Mortal Coil, 1991’s Blood is neither as unfocused as Filigree & Shadow or as conceptually pure as It’ll End in Tears, but it’s a solidly enjoyable set. Once again, nearly half the tracks are instrumentals (or tracks with minimal and often wordless female vocals) written by Ivo Watts~Russell and John Fryer, but this batch of tunes holds together much better than the much more amorphous originals on Filigree & Shadow; lengthy atmospheric explorations like “Dreams Are Like Water” sound composed and thoughtful rather than merely pretty. And as always, the covers are brilliantly chosen. The twin highlights are two songs written by Big Star’s Chris Bell; ”I Am the Cosmos” is reinterpreted as a ragged, brink~of~chaos rocker that sounds like it could have been on Big Star’s post~Bell magnum opus, Third, while a delicate acoustic version of “You and Your Sister” with wispy, unsure vocals by Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly ranks with the first album’s reinterpretation of Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren” as one of the group’s masterpieces. Other gems include a near~symphonic reading of Spirit’s “Nature’s Way” and a version of Syd Barrett’s “Late Night” that strips the song down to not much more than Caroline Crawley’s voice and a low~frequency hum.
Label: https://4ad.com/
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This Mortal Coil — Blood ( May 13, 1991/Remastered. Oct. 26, 2018) |
Recording Location:
• Blackwing Studios, London, England
• Pallidium Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland
Album release: October 26, 2018
Record Label: AD
Duration: 76:15
Tracks:
LP 1
01 The Lace Maker 4:06
02 Mr. Somewhere 2:52
03 Andialu 3:03
04 With Tomorrow 2:40
05 Loose Joints 2:26
06 You and Your Sister 3:14
07 Nature’s Way 3:19
08 I Come and Stand at Every Door 3:54
09 Bitter 6:25
10 Baby Ray Baby 2:13
11 Several Times 3:12
LP 2
12 The Lacemaker II 1:24
13 Late Night 3:03
14 Ruddy and Wretched 3:15
15 Help Me Lift You Up 5:06
16 Carolyn’s Song 3:47
17 D.D. and E. 0:47
18 ’Til I Gain Control Again 4:43
19 Dreams Are Like Water 8:37
20 I Am the Cosmos 4:05
21 (Nothing But) Blood 4:04
Credits:
↑↓★↑↓ Dominic Appleton Vocals
↑↓★↑↓ Gini Ball Violin
↑↓★↑↓ Syd Barrett Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Chris Bell Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Heidi Berry Guest Artist, Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ Randy California Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Grant Clarke Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Caroline Crawley Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ Rodney Crowell Composer
↑↓★↑↓ J. Davis Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Kim Deal Guest Artist, Vocals
↑↓★↑↓ Tanya Donelly Guest Artist, Vocals
↑↓★↑↓ Tim Freeman Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ John Fryer Composer, Engineer, Producer, Programming
↑↓★↑↓ Martin Fryer Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Anne Garrigues Vocals
↑↓★↑↓ Nigel Grierson Photography
↑↓★↑↓ Sally Herbert Strings
↑↓★↑↓ Nazim Hikmet Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Ikuko Kozu Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ Alison Limerick Guest Artist, Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ Martin McCarrick Cello, Composer, Strings
↑↓★↑↓ Pieter Nooten Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Vaughan Oliver Design
↑↓★↑↓ Jocelyn Pook trings
↑↓★↑↓ Rain Parade Drums, Guest Artist
↑↓★↑↓ David Roback Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Deirdre Rutkowski Vocals, Voices
↑↓★↑↓ Louise Rutkowski Vocals
↑↓★↑↓ Gus Shaw Mastering
↑↓★↑↓ Sonia Slaney Strings
↑↓★↑↓ Sonia Slany Strings
↑↓★↑↓ Jon Turner Engineer, Piano, Programming
↑↓★↑↓ James Walters Composer
↑↓★↑↓ Ivo Watts~Russell Composer, Producer
↑↓★↑↓ Jimmy Williams Guitar
About album:
≈ …remastered audio made from the original analogue studio tapes by the late John Dent.
Review by Stewart Mason; Score: ****½
★ The third and final album by This Mortal Coil, 1991’s Blood is neither as unfocused as Filigree & Shadow or as conceptually pure as It’ll End in Tears, but it’s a solidly enjoyable set. Once again, nearly half the tracks are instrumentals (or tracks with minimal and often wordless female vocals) written by Ivo Watts~Russell and John Fryer, but this batch of tunes holds together much better than the much more amorphous originals on Filigree & Shadow; lengthy atmospheric explorations like “Dreams Are Like Water” sound composed and thoughtful rather than merely pretty. And as always, the covers are brilliantly chosen. The twin highlights are two songs written by Big Star’s Chris Bell; ”I Am the Cosmos” is reinterpreted as a ragged, brink~of~chaos rocker that sounds like it could have been on Big Star’s post~Bell magnum opus, Third, while a delicate acoustic version of “You and Your Sister” with wispy, unsure vocals by Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly ranks with the first album’s reinterpretation of Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren” as one of the group’s masterpieces. Other gems include a near~symphonic reading of Spirit’s “Nature’s Way” and a version of Syd Barrett’s “Late Night” that strips the song down to not much more than Caroline Crawley’s voice and a low~frequency hum.
Label: https://4ad.com/
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