This Mortal Coil — “Another Day” — It’ll End In Tears
Maybe you’ve heard the Patton Oswalt bit about the lunch gun and gorging on fast food in your pitch-black apartment at 2 a.m., “staring into the middle distance,” with This Mortal Coil’s It’ll End In Tears playing. Funny specific aside, the pop reference is killer precisely because it toes the line between bleakest tragedy and hilarious melodrama, and as with Kentucky Fried Garbage, listening to TMC will make you question whether you’re actually getting any nourishment or just turning your insides to easily bruised pulp. ”Another Day” is a prime example—Liz Fraser of the Cocteau Twins muzzles her cheeky, cracked-out coo, delivering a recital-serious turn, while Roy Harper’s neoclassical string arrangement weeps all too effortlessly behind her. The washes of alien glamor together invite mockery, which may, in the end, be the simplest way of explaining the Gothic tag: it’s a style you find yourself sucked into against dumb instinct. P.S.: If anyone has the Peter Gabriel / Kate Bush cover of this, do share. Before I overdose on the original, I mean, and am discovered, cold and blue, amid piles of greasy chicken bones.
