Filigree & Shadow

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Filigree & Shadow
Studio album by This Mortal Coil
Released 20 September 1986
Recorded Blackwing Studios, Palladium Studios
Genre Goth
Length 74:13
Label 4AD
Producer Ivo Watts-Russell and John Fryer
Professional reviews
This Mortal Coil chronology
It'll End In Tears
(1984)		 Filigree & Shadow
(1986)		 Blood
(1991)

Filigree & Shadow was an album released in 1986 by Ivo Watts-Russell's supergroup, This Mortal Coil. The supergroup consists primarily of artists attached to the 4AD label, of which Ivo was the co-founder and (at the time) the owner and president. The album peaked at number two in the UK Independent Music chart, spending 16 weeks in total on the chart having entered it on October 11, 1986.

Categorically speaking, this music is considered Goth, as the songs have been described as haunting and perhaps dark, though uplifting (the first vocal track, "The Jeweller", is a good example of this). Of the 25 tracks, 13 are instrumental, including the title track.

This was the first double-LP released on 4AD, and introduced the "DAD" (for double album) prefix into the label's catalog [1]. Ivo took careful consideration in shaping the album's four sides so that they flowed together as individual wholes. This is lost somewhat on compact disc, as the entire album fits on one CD.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "Velvet Belly"
  2. "The Jeweller" (cover of Pearls Before Swine)
  3. "Ivy and Neet"
  4. "Meniscus"
  5. "Tears"
  6. "Tarantula" (cover of Colourbox)

[edit] Side two

  1. "My Father" (cover of Judy Collins)
  2. "Come Here My Love" (cover of Van Morrison)
  3. "At First, and Then"
  4. "Strength of Strings" (cover of Gene Clark)
  5. "Morning Glory" (cover of Tim Buckley)

[edit] Side three

  1. "Inch Blue"
  2. "I Want to Live" (cover of Gary Ogan & Bill Lamb)
  3. "Mama K"(1)
  4. "Filigree & Shadow"
  5. "Firebrothers" (cover of Quicksilver Messenger Service)
  6. "Thaïs"(1)
  7. "I Must Have Been Blind" (cover of Tim Buckley)
  8. "A Heart of Glass"

[edit] Side four

  1. "Alone" (cover of Colin Newman)
  2. "Mama K"(2)
  3. "The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb"
  4. "Drugs" (cover of Talking Heads)
  5. "Red Rain"
  6. "Thaïs"(2)

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Other information

Catalogue number:

  • LP: DAD609
  • MC: DADC609
  • CD: CAD609CD

[edit] External links


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