Today’s song of the day is the lovely “Mr. Somewhere” off the 1991 album Blood, the final LP by dream pop supergroup This Mortal Coil.
I’m just educated enough to know that the British music collective’s name is a reference to Hamlet. In his famous “To Be Or Not To Be” speech the beleaguered prince wonders whether he should just end things and shuffle off “this mortal coil.”
This Mortal Coil was a loose collaboration of musicians, which at times included Elizabeth Frazer and Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins. This song was balm to my angst-ridden soul when I was a teenage goth.
—Sarah Torribio
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