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This Mortal Coil

Filigree & Shadow

4AD (DAD 609)

2x Vinyl LP Album

Release date: Sep 21, 1986, UK

Filigree & Shadow from 1986 comes across as a more unified effort in comparison to 1984's It'll End in Tears, released as a double album and with each of its four sides planned as a self-contained unit, songs flowing one into the other. If nothing towers above the rest like "Song to the Siren" did, the tradeoff lies in the record's feeling of dramatic concentration. Something like "I Want to Live", a song taken from an obscure 1972 album on Elektra by Gary Ogan and Bill Lamb and given a remarkable reworking by sister singers Deirdre and Louise Rutkowski, can coexist with ominous near-industrial level pieces like "A Heart of Glass" and "The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb". Yet it all works in the end, from fragile strings on another Newman cover, "Alone", to the dark funk guitar on Talking Heads' "Drugs", and no one song moment can fully convey the record's range.

A1

Velvet Belly

A2

The Jeweller

A3

Ivy And Neet

A4

Meniscus

A5

Tears

A6

Tarantula

B1

My Father

B2

Come Here My Love

B3

At First, And Then

B4

Strength Of Strings

B5

Morning Glory

C1

Inch-Blue

C2

I Want To Live

C3

Mama K(1)

C4

Filigree & Shadow

C5

Firebrothers

C6

Thaïs(1)

C7

I Must Have Been Blind

C8

A Heart Of Glass

D1

Alone

D2

Mama K(2)

D3

The Horizon Bleeds And Sucks Its Thumb

D4

Drugs

D5

Red Rain

D6

Thaïs(2)

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