This Mortal Coil is a project of Ivo Watts-Russell the president of 4AD. The records consist mostly of dark and moody interpretative cover tunes of a wide variety of artists ranging from Big Star to The Apartments to Tim Buckley. He started in 1983. In 1998 he put together another record very much within the style and format of This Mortal Coil, and using many of the same people, such as John Fryer and Louise Rutkowski . This record appeared under the band name The Hope Blister under the title ...smile's OK.
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Rolling Stone biography