The Moon and the Melodies was a collaborative 4AD effort with the late minimalist Harold Budd. Featuring the three central figures behind the Cocteau Twins and Richard Thomas […]
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The Cocteau Twins’ sophomore album, Head Over Heels was conceived while the band was essentially homeless and staying at a friend’s house for about a year. “Foolishly, John […]
Featured on Test Pressing’s excellent Dubwise Vinyl column, Colourbox’s “Baby I Love You So” is a mesmerizingly original take on an Augustus Pablo production first sung by Jacob […]
One of the first signings on Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent’s imprint 4AD is also one of its least known, even if “Fond Affections” eventually found a bigger […]
It’ll End In Tears is the classic debut album by 4AD family band This Mortal Coil featuring members of Cocteau Twins, Magazine, and Dead Can Dance. 4AD described […]
One of the most underrated LA albums of the last decade in our opinion, No World is the debut album by inc., formerly Teen Inc., aka brothers Andrew […]
A textural masterpiece, Cocteau Twins third album Treasure is possibly the group’s finest work and a definite 4AD record during the label’s creative peak. Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde, […]
This is the type of record you put on and before you know it you’ve played it 2 or 3 times in a row… The post punk outfit […]
Extractions is the third album by the underrated instrumental quartet Dif Juz ( a play on ‘different jazz’) and their penultimate full length before dismembering in 1986. Shortly […]
