| Blood | ||||
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| Released | 22 April 1991 | |||
| Recorded | Blackwing Studios, Palladium Studios | |||
| Length | 76:15 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | 4AD | |||
| Producer | John Fryer and Ivo Watts-Russell | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Pitchfork | 8.4/10[2] |
| Select | 4/5[3] |
Blood is the third and final album released by 4AD collective This Mortal Coil, an umbrella title for a loose grouping of guest musicians and vocalists brought together by label co-founder Ivo Watts-Russell. The supergroup consists primarily of artists attached to the 4AD label, of which Watts-Russell was boss and president at the time. The double album was released in April 1991, and was the second release on 4AD to utilize the double album-identifier "DAD" prefix in its catalog number.
Blood was the final LP in the project's history, although Watts-Russell collaborated again with two TMC performers on his next project, The Hope Blister, in 1998. A remastered and repackaged CD edition of Blood was issued with the complete This Mortal Coil recordings in a self-titled box set, released in late November 2011. The CD was released individually shortly thereafter.[2]
In 2013, NME ranked the album at number 493 in its list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[4]
- ^ Mason, Stewart. "Blood – This Mortal Coil". AllMusic. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ^ a b Raggett, Ned (8 December 2011). "This Mortal Coil: HDCD Box Set". Pitchfork. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ^ Brown, Glyn (May 1991). "Blood Lust". Select (11): 84.
- ^ "Rocklist.net....NME: The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time : October 2013".