this mortal coil - song to the siren

This Mortal Coil was 4ADs own super group. This song is from their first album It'll End In Tears which was released in 1984. It's one of my favourite 80's albums and this Tim Buckley cover performed by Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins) is a classic wether you like it or not. The album also contains a cover of Roy Harpers Another Day. When you listen to Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel singing that song five years earlier it ought to become obvious that there were at least some links between the 80's post punk and goth movements and the progressive movement of the 70's.

kate bush & peter gabriel - another day (BBC Xmas special 1979)