[dream-pop] (2018) This Mortal Coil - Blood (1991, Remastered) [FLAC,Tracks] {100.XY}

(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