(2018) This Mortal Coil - Blood (1991, Remastered)





Review:

…remastered audio made from the original analogue studio tapes by the late John Dent. 

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.











Tracklist:

01 - The Lacemaker.flac

02 - Mr. Somewhere.flac

03 - Andialu.flac

04 - With Tomorrrow.flac

05 - Loose Joints.flac

06 - You and Your Sister.flac

07 - Nature's Way.flac

08 - I Come and Stand at Every Door.flac

09 - Bitter.flac

10 - Baby Ray Baby.flac

11 - Several Times.flac

12 - The Lacemaker II.flac

13 - Late Night.flac

14 - Ruddy and Wretched.flac

15 - Help Me Lift You Up.flac

16 - Carolyn's Song.flac

17 - D.D. And E.flac

18 - 'Til I Gain Control Again.flac

19 - Dreams Are Like Water.flac

20 - I Am the Cosmos.flac

21 - (Nothing But) Blood.flac



Summary:

Country: UK

Genre: dream-pop





Media Report:

Source                           : CD

Format                           : FLAC

Format/Info                      : Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM

Bit rate mode                    : Variable

Bit rate                         : ~ 700-950 Kbps

Channel(s)                       : 2 channels

Sampling rate                    : 44.1 KHz

Bit depth                        : 16 bits