Reviews of 4AD Titles

The fourth Cocteau Twins album is easily the dreamiest and most ambient title in their catalog.

For all of its artificiality, there’s very little that’s cold, clinical, or merely “academic” about Platform.

Much of the album is a muddled, incoherent, and underwhelming mess.

A tribute to an old computer, the five long tracks that make up this disc are elegiac and gorgeous.

You must either acquiesce to Scott Walker’s latest or just throw the whole thing away and move onto something safer.

You get the feeling you could see entire seasons pass with this record on the changer, falling in and out of love and hate as it plays on.

Piano Magic picks up right where This Mortal Coil left off.

Lush always focused more on the ‘pop’ side of the ‘dreampop’ equation.

Haunting soundscapes that conjure up misty beaches, abandoned lighthouses, and hulking shipwrecks.

4 discs might seem like a little much for any band, but given Dead Can Dance’s diverse, extensive catalog, it feels just about right.

Mojave 3 has gone for a starker acoustic sound that’s stripped down, sparse, and surprisingly more inviting.

Sleeps with the Fishes is adept at taking what should be morose music and converts it into something resplendent.

Throws a wrench into the idea that 4AD will forever be consigned to releasing ethereal female-fronted groups.

This is a reissue of two records, Huremics and Vibrating Air, by one of the 4AD record label’s most criminally unheard of bands.

Play any of these songsfor someone and tell them it’s a long-lost Autechre b-side and they’d probably believe you.

Confirms the fact that we are hearing one of the most exquisite groups of the ’90s, and of the next decade.