4ad

Country: United Kingdom

The influential 4AD label was started in 1980 by music enthusiasts Ivo WattsRussell and Peter Kent with financial help from Beggars Banquet.

Originally calling their label Axis, they released an initial series of four 7" singles before finding out that the name Axis was already being used by another label. Having to quickly come up with a new name, the partners noticed the following bit of typography that their graphic designer had put on a flyer announcing the Axis releases:

1980 FORWARD 1980 FWD 1984 AD 4AD

Artists:

Mountain Goats	Cass Mccombs
Blonde Redhead	Vinny Miller
Tv On The Radio	Rachel Goswell
Cocteau Twins	Breeders
Dead Can Dance	Throwing Muses
Kristin Hersh	Lisa Gerrard
Mojave 3	Lisa Gerrard & Patri
Pixies	Tanya Donelly
Thievery Corporation	This Mortal Coil
Pale Saints	Ultra Vivid Scene
His Name Is Alive	Wolfgang Press
Heidi Berry	Spirea X
Modern English	Colin Newman
Dif Juz	Various
Bauhaus	Gilbert And Lewis
Lush	Michael Brook
Swallow	Red House Painters
In Camera	Colourbox
Happy Family	Neil Halstead
Sybarite	Piano Magic
Belly	Gusgus Vs Tworld
Magnetophone	Frank Black
Unrest	X-mal Deutschland
Lisa Germano	Kendra Smith
Liquorice	Tarnation
Air Miami	Amps
Xymox	Scheer
Paladins	Voix Bulgares
Cocteau Twins And Ha	Clan Of Xymox
Gusgus	Pieter Nooten & Mich
Hope Blister	Lakuna
Cuba	Brendan Perry
The The	50 Foot Wave
Lisa Gerrard & Piete	Fifty Foot Wave
Minotaur Shock	Celebration
Beirut	Wolf And Cub
The Late Cord	Scott Walker
The Breeders	Gus Gus
The Mountain Goats	Lisa Gerrard And Pieter Bourke
Johann Johannson	Barbara Carlotti
Johann Johannsson	Various Artists
Egg Hunt	Fhs
As Friends Rust	Emma Pollock
The Wolfgang Press	Cupol
Xmal Deutschland	Cocteau Twins And Harold Budd
Pieter Nooten And Michael Broo	Atlas Sound
It Hugs Back

4ad

Release date: 2007-10-06

SCOTT WALKER

And Who Shall Go To The Ball
4ad
INDIE

In 2006, Scott Walker confirmed his position as one of the most singular talents working in any field of the arts by releasing the incomparable album ‘The Drift’. Last year Scott was commissioned by London’s South Bank Centre to write music for a contemporary.........