Filigree & Shadow

This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow

Filigree & Shadow
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Artist: This Mortal Coil
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-07-07
Music Label: 4ad / Ada
Soundtracks:
  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. Filigree & 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

Free Music Notes for Filigree & Shadow

Free Music Review: Obscure, Original and Classic
Hit: 5 Stars

It is still hard to believe this album was made and released in the early mid 1980's. It is so completely against the grain of the stereotypes of that time in that decade. So, as a result, when this was printed by then indie label 4AD, it became a startlingly original and instant classic album of a certain niche in underground culture.

First, there's the cover art - a distorted image of what appears to be some sort of vampiric creature. And that's really what the album kind of sounds like and why it had so much appeal to the "goth" or "gothic" underground. The album sounds like the collected anthems of an immortal creature. Something that was raised in another country perhaps, in splendour, then lived on and on. The clashingly classic and eloquent first tracks on the album are like a trip down memory lane for an old vampire. Then we hit some more energetic, 80's rock type material for the modern age of the undead creature. I can see someone listening to this and then reading Anne Rice. Wait, actually I DID see that in my childhood because my brother was a 80's goth in California! He now watches Invader Zim and does design work.

Regardless, it was in large part due to this album that I realized music didn't have to be the top 40 on the radio. I later discovered my own bands like Sonic Youth and Flying Saucer Attack yet I still give a nod to the This Mortal Coil experience. There really is NOTHING like this album that I can think of and I've heard a lot of music as a radio dj myself. If you think you're ready for an original listening experience then I invite you to try Filigree & Shadow.

Highlights include : Ivy and Neet, the hard to pronounce "Thais", Strength of Strings - and the goth girl anthem "Come Here My Love."

If you like this band you might like:
Harold Budd
Aphex Twin
Nine Inch Nails
Bauhaus
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