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- Date Released: May 13, 1991
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: 4AD
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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.
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| 01. |  |
Lacemaker |
4:06 |
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| 02. | |
Mr. Somewhere |
2:52 |
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| 03. | |
Andialu |
3:03 |
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| 04. | |
With Tomorrow |
2:40 |
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| 05. | |
Loose Joints |
2:26 |
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| 06. | |
You and Your Sister |
3:14 |
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| 07. | |
Nature's Way |
3:19 |
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| 08. | |
I Come and Stand at Every Door |
3:54 |
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| 09. | |
Bitter |
6:26 |
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| 10. | |
Baby Ray Baby |
2:13 |
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| 11. | |
Several Times |
3:12 |
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| 12. | |
Lacemaker II |
1:24 |
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| 13. | |
Late Night |
3:03 |
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| 14. | |
Ruddy and Wretched |
3:15 |
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| 15. | |
Help Me Lift You Up |
5:06 |
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| 16. | |
Carolyn's Song |
3:47 |
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| 17. | |
D.D. And E. |
0:48 |
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| 18. | |
'Til I Gain Control Again |
4:43 |
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| 19. | |
Dreams Are Like Water |
8:37 |
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| 20. | |
I Am the Cosmos |
4:06 |
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| 21. | |
(Nothing But) Blood |
4:04 |
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21 Total Tracks, 76:18 Total Length
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Credits
- This Mortal Coil - Main Performer // Gini Ball - Violin // Heidi Berry - Vocals // Heidi Berry - Voices // Caroline Crawley - Vocals // Caroline Crawley - Voices // Kim Deal - Vocals // John Fryer - Programming // John Fryer - Producer // John Fryer - Engineer // Sally Herbert - Strings // Ikuko Kozu - Vocals // Ikuko Kozu - Voices // Alison Limerick - Vocals // Alison Limerick - Voices // Martin McCarrick - Strings // Martin McCarrick - Cello // Rain Parade - Drums // Jocelyn Pook - Strings // Deirdre Rutkowski - Vocals // Deirdre Rutkowski - Voices // Louise Rutkowski - Vocals // Sonia Slany - Strings // Ivo Watts-Russell - Producer // Tanya Donelly - Vocals // Jon Turner - Piano // Jon Turner - Programming // Jon Turner - Engineer // Vaughan Oliver - Design // Nigel Grierson - Photography // Gus Shaw - Mastering // Dominic Appleton - Vocals // Anne Garrigues - Vocals // Sonia Slaney - Strings // Jimmy Williams - Guitar // Tim Freeman - Vocals // Tim Freeman - Voices
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