This Mortal Coil. Blood. FIRST UK PRESS. DAD1005. VG/VG+. 4AD. 1991.

	£		25
	$		33

From Punk to Indi to Industrial to Gothic to Techno to Ambient.

Welcome to a listing from my personal record collection.

A vinyl journey spanning some 18 years and over 1000 pressings from 1977 to 1995.

THIS LISTING IS FOR

Artist This Mortal Coil

Title Blood

Format Double 12" Vinyl album

Pressing First UK pressing 1991

Label 4AD

Label Code No label code

Barcode 5 014436 100512

Matrix A Side  MPO DAD 1005 A¹ (etched)

Matrix B Side  MPO DAD 1005 B¹ (etched)

Matrix C Side  MPO DAD 1005 C¹ (etched)

Matrix D Side  MPO DAD 1005 D¹ (etched)

TRACK LISTING

A Side 1 The Lacemaker   2 Mr Somewhere   3 Andialu   4 With Tomorrow 

           5 Loose Joints   6 You And Your Sister

B Side 1 I Come And Stand At Every Door   2 Bitter   3 Baby Ray Baby   4 Several Times

C Side 1 Lacemaker II   2 Late Night   3 Ruddy And Wretched   4 Help Me Lift You Up

            5 Carolyn's Song   6 D.D And E  

D Side 1 'Til I Gain Control Again   2 Dreams Are Like Water   3 I Am  The Cosmos

            4 (Nothing But) Blood  

An excellent copy of Ivo Wats and the 4AD gang's third, last and best album.

Absolutely stunning. Put it on, watch the daylight fade as the sun goes down

and be grateful of such sublime music.

The condition of the playing surfaces is excellent.

All four sides are beautifully glossy, dust and fingerprint free.

Sides 1,2 and 3 have only the lightest and most superficial hairlines from getting the records 

in and out of the sleeves.

Side 4 has the same hairlines, but also has two, more obvious, scuffs.

While they are quite obvious to the eye they are both still very superficial.

I have play tested the tracks and there is absolutely no loss of sound quality

due to either of them.

The outer sleeve is in excellent condition, there is practically no ring wear to speak of.

The corners show a little wear, the bottom right one slightly more than the other three.

The spine is in excellent condition.

The inner sleeves are in near perfect condition, all corners are sharp and undamaged.

Unless otherwise stated every record was purchased by myself from new and only ever played

by myself on my own deck and with as expensive a cartridge as I could afford at the time.

When it comes to attributing a grading to each of my records I will confess I am not an expert.

And while both the Goldmine standard and The Record Collectors systems give us a number of agreed fundamentals

to help determine a grading for vinyl and its associated media, attributing a true and accurate grading to something as

individual as a pre-owned piece of Vinyl is unavoidably subjective.

One person's 'slight scuff' may be another's deal breaker.

With this in mind I will endeavour to describe as accurately as possible, in the descriptions of each listing,

not only what I feel to be a fair grading, but also an overall description of the record in question, along with details

of any and all marks, defects and anomalies I can see.

I am a firm believer in the maxim of - if you can feel it you can hear it.

So if there is anything that looks or feels like it may possibly affect a record's playing quality or sound clarity,

and therefore the pleasure derived from listening to it or its true value to a collector, I will give it one final spin

and make my findings known in the product description.

Over and above this I am happy to take returns.

I personally wouldn't bid on a pre-owned record without the option to return it if I felt that the seller hadn't been

totally truthful and transparent in their description of it, or that on receipt it didn't live up to my expectations. 

And I do not expect you to do so either. 

So please, feel free to bid with confidence.

I am a professional photographer by trade, and have gone to great lengths to light and photograph covers, inner sleeves

and the vinyl themselves in such a way as to show, as accurately as possible, the actual condition of all.

Rest assured that what you see is exactly what will be despatched to you if you are the successful winner of each listing.

Before photographing each record went through a three stage cleaning process:

1 - Removal of any surface dust with a light brushing over with a carbon fibre and velvet disc cleaning pad

2 - Deep cleaning with large (Big Fudge) velvet pad and cleaning solution

3 - A final brushing with a Pro-Ject carbon fibre record brush.

And finally, because Mr or Mrs  Poasty may not handle your record with the same care and reverence that you or I would,

I will dispatch in a specialised corrugated cardboard record mailing outer, and if I feel even more protection is required

I will also include two extra sheets of 3mm corrugated cardboard for added safety and protection.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and for showing an interest

in giving a new home to one of my records.

I have other listings live right now and will be adding new ones on a regular basis,

so please do take a peak and stay tuned for more. I will combine postage, so please do ask.