They’re running around and holding hands and kissing on trains as Camera Obscura’s beautifully sweet melody plays. It even comes with a whimsical music video where you get to be the voyeur to a young couple traveling across Europe. “French Navy” from My Maudlin Career is the perfect example of this. There are hundreds of thousands of songs all dedicated to the moment two people lock eyes, get that tingling feeling in their stomach and/or bone zones and then run away to a life of kisses and cuddles all set to a sweet tune. – Jeff Terichįalling in love is the best feeling in the world. It’s more straightforward than any of the album’s other tracks, yet equally chilling. It’s tough to highlight one track when they’re all such monstrous and powerful pieces, but the one that jumps out is actually its quietest - “A Lover Loves.” You get the sense it could have been made into a much bigger and gnarlier piece, but instead, Walker leaves it to be a more subdued and haunting ballad played on acoustic guitar. That’s not necessarily a bad thing for while Scott through Scott 4 are undoubtedly masterpieces, a new era demands a new Scott Walker, and The Drift stands as perhaps his greatest work. His first release for 4AD, 2006’s The Drift, was an overwhelmingly intense listen - easily one of the most terrifying albums ever released, and almost nothing like his famed Scott albums from the 1960s. One of the most fascinating gets of the last decade for 4AD is ’60s-era orchestral pop crooner Scott Walker, reborn in the ’90s as a twisted art rock auteur with an ear for the avant garde and the macabre.
1 song in October 1987 and remains the only 4AD track to ever top the UK charts. & Rakim, Trouble Funk and dozens more, it dethroned Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” as Britain’s No. A piece of proto-turntablism highlighting signature sounds from Ofra Haza, Eric B. In reality, though, this was tech-savvy street storytelling that mimicked DJ Premier and predicted DJ Shadow. It’s a relentless sci-fi dance party that was initially inspired by the burgeoning house music scene of the day. Colourbox members did the final assembly on the A-side in much the same manner as a manic DJ, four theoretical turntables and infinite triggers seemingly at the ready. Kane, resulting in a two-song single where one band started a track and passed it to the other to finish. M|A|R|R|S was a brief joint project of 4AD bands Colourbox and A.R. The label’s involvement with the sounds of rap has been rare, but this earliest instance of it is one not soon forgotten. Queue up our list of 39 of the best 4AD Records tracks and take a journey from goth to dream-pop, and from trip-hop to art-pop. So to celebrate its 35th anniversary, we’ve assembled a list of some of its best singles and deep cuts.
From its earliest post-punk and goth releases on up to experimental artists of the present like Gang Gang Dance, and fascinating curiosities in between - see: Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares and Rema-Rema, the latter of which was the first album on the label to display the logo we recognize today - 4AD has been a reliable house of progressive and interesting music.
You can probably count on one hand the number of labels that have had as much impact on underground music as 4AD - Sub Pop, Matador, Warp… it gets a bit trickier after that. In the search for a new name, Peter Kent and Ivo Watts-Russell printed up a poster that used a bit of typographical wordplay that ultimately slimmed down “1980 FORWARD” to “4AD” - the name stuck, and decades later, it’s become one of the most iconic independent labels in the UK. In a pretty short amount of time, however, the two would find that the name “Axis” would have to be shelved due to another label using the same name that’s probably for the best. In 1979, two employees of British label Beggars Banquet launched an offshoot store and label they called Axis.
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