Blood by This Mortal Coil

Blood, the third and last This Mortal Coil album, came out on 4AD in April 1991, a sprawling double album from the collective that label co-founder Ivo Watts-Russell used as an umbrella for whatever guest musicians and singers he could gather, most of them drawn from his own roster. Watts-Russell and producer John Fryer were the only official members; everyone else was a visitor.

The sound is the one the project had perfected: gothic, dreamy, ethereal music that drifts rather than rocks, with voices floating over hazy, cathedral-sized textures and every track seemingly lit by candle. "You And Your Sister" was the song that made the countdowns. Blood closed the book on the project, though Watts-Russell carried the idea into The Hope Blister in 1998. A remastered edition came with the complete This Mortal Coil box set in late 2011, and NME later placed it at number 493 among the greatest albums of all time.

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