Xmal Deutschland "The Gift: 4AD Years" COLOR:3xLP Transparent Red w/ 24 pg Booklet the fourth album from Thao

the fourth album from Thao & the Get Down Stay Down

The 12” features the original promo single version of “Alive” plus three rare b-sides: “Wash”

and together they put down lead single "One Last Dance" in just that first meeting

This set features the first audio-only release of Neil Finn’s classic 1998 appearance on the award-winning TV program "Sessions At West 54th" recorded live in New York City

The additional content features five live multi-track recordings from the Yo Yo A Go Go Festival in Olympia WA in 1997

Xmal Deutschland "The Gift: 4AD Years" COLOR:3xLP Transparent Red w/ 24 pg Booklet the fourth album from ThaoCommemorating 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