- Adrianne Lenker
- Aldous Harding
- Anjimile
- Atlas Sound
- Bartees Strange
- Becky and the Birds
- Big Thief
- Buck Meek
- cumgirl8
- Daughter
- Deerhunter
- Dry Cleaning
- Erika de Casier
- Ex:Re
- Future Islands
- Helado Negro
- Holly Herndon
- Jenny Hval
- Kim Deal
- Lucinda Chua
- Maria Somerville
- Scott Walker
- The Breeders
- The National
- Tkay Maidza
- Tucker Zimmerman
- Tune-Yards
- U.S. Girls
- All Artists
Foreword
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Rema-Rema
Send No Flowers
As the saying goes, anticipation is half the pleasure. And if the pleasure really does prove equal to the task, then everyone who has waited for a Rema-Rema retrospective will be thrilled to the core by the double vinyl/CD album Fond Reflections, released almost 40 years after their sole EP, Wheel In The Roses.
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Dead Can Dance
Anywhere Out Of The World: The Unique Vision of Dead Can Dance
The term 'unique' is often bandied about, for all the various distinctive signature work through the ages, but still, music that might best be summed up - and watered down - by 'transcendent, classically infused, hyper-ethereal...
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Rhode Island Odyssey
Belly’s website didn’t exist before the band’s announcement, in early 2016, of their reunion. At the top is the band’s logo, surrounded in a circle by eight birds in flight; not phoenixes denoting rebirth, but a continuation of the “small plastic animal models” that drummer – and Belly graphic ‘director’ – Chris Gorman still favours...
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Lush
Chorus Lines
Lush's announcement of their first shows in 20 years has a different ring than comparative band reformations because of what brought them to a halt. Sure, there were attendant stresses of relentless touring and recording (especially during the 'format wars' of the Nineties, with the demands for all those B-sides), management teams lacking in empathy, complicated by their record label's own internal strife - and this on a band that struggled to believe in their own abilities.
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Daughter
3 Films
Not To Disappear is the second album released by Daughter, and features the three singles ‘Doing The Right Thing’, ‘Numbers’ and ‘How’. In collaboration with the BAFTA-nominated Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, and writer Stuart Evers, the band released three respective short films for the tracks.
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Cocteau Twins
Searching For Heaven
For almost a decade, the relationship between 4AD and Cocteau Twins was so intertwined that it's still hard not to think of one without the other rearing its immaculate head...
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Pixies
The Rickety Fence That Separates Barbarism and Civility
Doolittle original biography draft, 1989.
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In Camera
Era
Evolving from the ashes of punk, inspired by peers and numerous films, In Camera came about as a result of like-minds and musical solidarity…
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Red House Painters
Beds, Rollercoasters, Bridges and Beaches: A Retrospective
I still have the C100 Memorex cassette that he gave me. There are two San Francisco phone numbers (one “day”, one “eve”) and the name “Mark”...
4AD: Year In Review
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4AD
2022
The swift return of Dry Cleaning, Big Thief's magnus opum and brand new Aldous Harding; just a taste of what we released on 4AD in 2022.
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4AD
2021
2021 saw 4AD release debut albums by Dry Cleaning and Spencer., plus saw the return of Tune-Yards and the the first releases on 4AD by Erika de Casier and Helado Negro. Explore these albums, and many more, in this year's Foreword...
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4AD
2020
Another busy year at 4AD, in unprecedented times, saw fantastic new releases from the likes of Grimes, Future Islands and Adrianne Lenker, whilst...
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4AD
2019
A hugely rewarding year at 4AD, including releases by The National, Aldous Harding, Holly Herndon and two new albums by Big Thief ...
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4AD
2018
Another very busy year at 4AD saw stellar releases from vital artists including Tune-Yards, U.S. Girls, The Breeders...
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4AD
4AD: 2017
A busy year of releases, including The National's first #1 album and the return of The Breeders.
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