This Mortal Coil

Pictures

It'll End In Tears

Listen to, buy or share

Buy

Buy on Amazon Amazon Expand purchase options
  • Digital download
  • Amazon Amazon
  • 7digital 7digital
  • iTunes iTunes
  • Physical media
  • Amazon Amazon Search
  • eBay eBay Search
  • 2,992,604
    scrobbles
  • 133,333
    listeners

Tags

Everyone’s tags

More tags

Biography

Northamptonshire, England (1983 – 1991)

This Mortal Coil is a project of Ivo Watts-Russell (from Northamptonshire, England), president of the British 4AD record label, which began in 1983 and lasted until 1991. This Mortal Coil (TMC) is an example of a , and performers include members from bands on 4AD’s roster, such as Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Colourbox, The Wolfgang Press, Dif Juz, X Mal Deutschland and Modern English. The records consist mostly of dark and moody interpretative cover versions of a wide variety of artists ranging from Big Star and Talking Heads to The Apartments and Tim Buckley. The group recorded three albums; It’ll End in Tears, Filigree & Shadow and Blood.

The group takes its name from Shakespeare. In particular Hamlet’s soliloquy To be, or not to be, where it refers to dying; “coil” is used in its archaic sense of “disturbance, trouble”:

“What dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause.”
Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1, line 67.
Read more… Edit bio

Videos

Top Albums

Listening Trend

133,333listeners all time
2,992,604scrobbles all time
Recent listeners trend:

Start scrobbling and track your listening history

Last.fm users scrobble the music they play in iTunes, Spotify, Rdio and over 200 other music players.

Create a Last.fm profile

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up.

  • Kaisercriss

    This Mortal COIL <3

    7 May 3:58am Reply

  • melodymann

    worm music

    6 May 10:06pm Reply

  • xiscoxisco

    Tarantula....

    4 May 11:47am Reply

  • RussellChap

    Song to the Siren maybe the most beautiful thing sung by Liz

    22 Feb 12:34pm Reply

  • asq1974

    i haven't listen to This Mortal Coil for 20 years.. so so many beautiful songs i forgot existed

    7 Feb 9:07pm Reply

  • SynTecH-X

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvHDLop6w6Q

    29 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Alex_Stone91

    *___*

    19 Dec 2012 Reply

  • shark-a

    I think my favest album is Filigree & Shadow - perhaps because it was their first album I bought. But all of them are brilliant and very special to me. Love this group a lot...

    16 Dec 2012 Reply

  • blackswano

    Sixteen days no bread and water // Sixteen days no light of day.

    12 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Anja_Karenina

    I absolutely love all the photography/art work! I recently procured two vinyls and seriously the CDs/mp3s do not do justice to this band. These vinyls are very precious to me.

    2 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Signifer

    Precious

    15 Nov 2012 Reply

  • fragg_grrl

    Reminds me of my mum, she has a few albums on vinyl, always loved them as a child!

    31 Oct 2012 Reply

  • etherealmoment

    4ad's early canonical lynchpin. this is the first time i've listened in years. better than ever!

    21 Oct 2012 Reply

  • malevon

    why didn't anybody tell me this was my favorite band?

    7 Oct 2012 Reply

  • iamjustkidding

    my dad recently showed me an album by the band Spirit, i had completely forgotten they wrote "Nature's Way", funny how it comes full circle.

    24 Sep 2012 Reply

  • GwynplaineVeidt

    "It'll end in tears" is, with no shadow of a doubt, one of the most beautiful and haunting records of all time. <3 [2]

    17 Sep 2012 Reply

  • incunabula3

    the new album covers for the digital albums are seriously the creepiest things ever

    11 Sep 2012 Reply

  • distortedguest

    It'll End in Tears is life-changing, for sure.

    26 Aug 2012 Reply

  • Eli_Teixeira

    "It'll end in tears" is, with no shadow of a doubt, one of the most beautiful and haunting records of all time. <3

    24 Aug 2012 Reply

  • KuriousBanana

    @TabooEv - Are you familiar with the term 'technical glitch'?

    11 Aug 2012 Reply
    • All 292 shouts

Listening Now

Top Listeners