Filigree & Shadow

by This Mortal Coil

Filigree & Shadow cover art

Masterminded by 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell, this sprawling, intensely atmospheric project features a revolving cast of musicians performing heavily orchestrated covers and instrumental interludes. The double album seamlessly weaves gothic rock textures, lush string arrangements, and breathy, ethereal vocals into a deeply cohesive, nocturnal mood piece. It is a surreal, melancholic triumph of the dream pop genre.

Genres

  • Ethereal Wave
  • Dream Pop

Tracklist

  1. Velvet Belly
  2. The Jeweller
  3. Ivy And Neet
  4. Meniscus
  5. Tears
  6. Tarantula
  7. My Father
  8. Come Here My Love
  9. At First, and Then
  10. Strength Of Strings
  11. Morning Glory
  12. Inch-Blue
  13. I Want To Live
  14. Mama K (1)
  15. Filigree & Shadow
  16. Firebrothers
  17. Thais (1)
  18. I Must Have Been Blind
  19. A Heart of Glass
  20. Alone
  21. Mama K (2)
  22. The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb
  23. Drugs
  24. Red Rain
  25. Thais (2)