Gift (The 4AD Years): Limited Transparent Red Vinyl 3LP Life Without Buildings which sees the band in

which sees the band in a Star Trek spoof like no other

Travelling Light (duet with Carla Torgerson)

evolving from their previous foundations with an album that reflects on escapism as a necessary part of modern living

As the songs kept coming I cleared out the crowded shed that was sitting dormant in my backyard and built a makeshift studio before adding drums

Gift (The 4AD Years): Limited Transparent Red Vinyl 3LP Life Without Buildings which sees the band inCommemorating their 4AD years (1983 1984) forty years on, the mysteriously enchanting group returns now with a brand new release entitled Gift: The 4AD Years, out 9 May. The extraordinary impact Xmal Deutschland had upon British audiences in the early Eighties is difficult to convey forty years on. A spell was cast by the staccato rhythms, unmediated channels and mysterious (to us) language of their music, and by the vision and strength of the women