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This Mortal Coil was the inspiration of Ivo Watts-Russell, the founder of 4AD. Initially the project was to re-record a medley that Modern English performed live and the B-side featured Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins performing an obscure Tim Buckley composition, 'Song To The Siren'. The plaudits for this recording encouraged Ivo to continue and an album, It’ll End In Tears, was released in 1984. Filigree And Shadow, which followed two years later, was even more cohesive and flowed over the four sides of the original album. With no defined breaks between tracks it was created to be listened to as a piece and the core of musicians added to the continuity. 1991’s Blood, the final part of the trilogy, was also a double album.

The Box Set
All three albums have been re-mastered from the original analogue studio tapes by John Dent at Loud Mastering. Additionally there is a fourth album, Dust & Guitars, that compiles all the singles, including an unreleased one that was to have been part of the Rough Trade Singles Club and features the otherwise unavailable recording of Neil Young’s ‘We Never Danced’. The HDCD albums are packaged in paper sleeves printed to the highest standard by the Ichikudo company in Japan, along with inner sleeves and booklets. They are released in a very limited edition box, itself is a deluxe, two-piece. The official three albums have re-designed sleeves by Ivo Watts-Russell and Vaughan Oliver, 4AD’s long time visual partner, which cater to the reduced size, feature gatefold sleeves, and remain inspired by the originals. The fourth album, which won’t be available to general retail outside the box set, incorporates unseen images of Pallas Citroën, the ‘face’ of This Mortal Coil.

Tracklisting
CD 1 - It'll End In Tears
1. Kanga-Roo
2. Song To The Siren
3. Holocaust
4. Fyt
5. Fond Affections
6. The Last Ray
7. Another Day
8. Waves Become Wings
9. Barramundi
10. Dreams Made Flesh
11. Not Me
12. A Single Wish
CD 2 - Filigree & Shadow
1. Velvet Belly
2. The Jeweller
3. Ivy and Neet
4. Meniscus
5. Tarantula
6. My Father
7. Come Here My Love
8. At First, And Then
9. Strength Of Strings
10. Morning Glory
11. Inch-Blue
12. I Want To Live
13. Mama K
14. Filligree & Shadow
15. Firebrothers
16. Thaïs
17. I Must Have Been Blind
18. A Heart Of Glass
19. Alone
20. Mama K
21. The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb
22. Drugs
23. Red Rain
24. Thaïs
CD 3 - Blood
1. Lace Maker
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
19. Dreams Are Like Water
20. I Am The Cosmos
21. (Nothing But) Blood
CD 4 - Dust & Guitars
1. Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust
2. Song To The Siren
3. Sixteen Days (Reprise)
4. Kangaroo
5. It'll End In Tears
6. Come Here My Love
7. Drugs
8. Acid, Bitter And Sad
9. We Never Danced
10. Thaïs (Bird Of Paradise)