This Mortal Coil
It'll End In Tears

THE REVIEW

Sometimes it seems that dreams do not want to stop cradling our hearts with abstract and immortal journeys, far from the real and the concrete.
Therefore, the dream is not fiction but a world of emotions; in this case, such a world is called This Mortal Coil "It'll End In tears".

It is 1983, a golden year for English music, and it is precisely in this year that the work in question arises from 4AD, featuring remarkable covers (Tim Buckley, Alex Chilton) reinterpreted by respectable artists (E. Fraser, L. Gerrard, G. Sharp).
But it is the beginning of the dream "Kangaroo", a ballad for bass and cello in which Sharp's voice maneuvers, reciting in the agony of memory.
A bitter feeling, a love song perhaps an anthem to beauty, is the concept of the second track "Song To the Siren" simple, immediate, untouched by electronic experimentation but only voice and guitar.
Two gems have already opened our dream, but perhaps it is with "Holocaust" that everything matures and ascends to infinite beauty, only a piano, violins, and voice to baptize our soul with the pain of farewell, every feeling vanishes and this is what H. Devoto praises as a Rimbaud of music.

Naturally, space is left for instrumental tracks that sway like marine dews ("The last ray" "Fyt"). But also dark and violent ballads disrupt the tranquility of our attention, cries of martyrs, dark nights take shape with Lisa Gerrard's voice ("Waves Become Wings" "Dream Made flash"). Subtle tears flowing on pale and absent faces, a dream perhaps too sad, but at the same time unique and infinite, a journey that lands in ancient French villas illuminated by the fervors of a ball ("Another Day").
Perhaps arts too baroque that at the same time are overshadowed by "Not me" a beautiful cover of Colin Newman that embraces the more "wave" meanderings. Arriving hand in hand with all our fears and all our memories, it will seem that this dream ends "In tears" with "A Single Wish" a slow and fascinating ballad, too romantic and poignant to be listened to a second time.

After the record is finished it will not seem like waking up disappointed for having forgotten a magnificent dream, made during rest, but rather we would be pleased by memories that perhaps we have forgotten over time.