4AD gave the band an $ 11, 000 budget and recruited Steve Albini, who had worked with Deal on the Pixies ' 1988 album Surfer Rosa, to record in Edinburgh, Scotland for two weeks in December 1989.

Like the label 4AD Records, Factory Records used a creative team ( most notably record producer Martin Hannett and graphic designer Peter Saville ) which gave the label, and the artists recording for it, a particular sound and image.

The band released three more singles, " Dark Entries ", " Terror Couple Kill Colonel " and " Telegram Sam " — originally written by glam rock pioneers T. Rex — before the debut of their first album In the Flat Field in 1980 on 4AD.

The band had finished the production of their next album, entitled Chemical Chords, which was released in August 2008 on the 4AD label.

The band sent the tape to the English independent record label 4AD because both the Pixies and Throwing Muses had signed to the label.

After releasing two albums with 4AD, he left the label and formed a new band, Frank Black and the Catholics.

In 1989, the band signed to 4AD Records and released Scar, a 6-track mini-album.

Anderson told Everett True in Melody Maker, " I remember when I couldn't play, I wasn't in a band, didn't know anyone else who could play, and now we've got a record out on 4AD.

While remaining a 4AD band internationally, the Cocteau Twins finally signed a major-label contract with Capitol Records in 1988 for distribution in the US, and released their fifth proper LP, Blue Bell Knoll, in October of that year.

In 2000, 4AD released Stars and Topsoil, a compilation of selected songs picked by the band members that had been released during their years with 4AD ; all recordings had been digitally remastered by Robin Guthrie.

Doolittle is the second studio album from the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in April 1989 on 4AD.

Surfer Rosa is the first full-length album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in March 1988 on the British independent record label 4AD.

4AD allocated the band a budget of US $ 10, 000.

Bossanova is the third album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in August 1990 on the English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States.

Despite 4AD label president Ivo Watts-Russell proclaiming that this LP was one of the best releases ever on his label, he released the Twins from their contract at the end of 1990, as his relationship with the band had soured.

During 1983, the Australian band The Birthday Party transferred from 4AD to Mute Records.

Come On Pilgrim is the debut mini-LP release by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in September 1987 by 4AD.

The Pixies ' manager, Ken Goes, was also the manager of Throwing Muses, who had become the first American band to sign to 4AD a year earlier.

Despite being initially unimpressed by the demo, Watts-Russell was urged to sign the band by his girlfriend, a secretary for 4AD.

" Expressing regret that some previous 4AD debuts failed to live up the power of their demo versions, he decided to slightly re-mix eight of The Purple Tape's 17 songs for release, rather than have the band re-record the songs.

The demos came to the attention of Ivo Watts-Russell, who signed them as the first U. S. band on the 4AD Records label and released their self-titled debut album in 1986.

Trompe le Monde is the fourth and final album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in 1991 on the English independent record label 4AD in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States.

The 4AD Records folk-rock band Stornoway took their name from the town, after seeing it on the BBC weather report.

* The 4AD Records folk-rock band Stornoway-took their name from the town, after seeing it on the BBC weather report.

Shortly after being dropped by Creation, Halstead, Goswell and McCutcheon recorded an album of country-influenced songs, and were signed to label 4AD, changing the band name to Mojave 3 to reflect the new musical direction.

The British independent label 4AD Records signed Walker in early 2004 and his first album in 11 years, The Drift, was released on 8 May 2006 to strong reviews.

** 12 " ( 4AD BAD-5001, 10 Jan 1995 ): Going South (@ 440 Mix ) ( 8: 18 ) // 11 Years ( Sabres Main Mix 2 ) ( 7: 26 ) / Christianity ( Sherwood Mix ) ( 8: 33 )

** US CD ( 4AD / Warner 9 41883-2, 1994 ): Going South ( 7 " Version ) ( 3: 39 ) / Going South (@ 440 Mix ) ( 8: 17 ) / Chains ( Wobble Mix ) ( 6: 15 ) / Going South ( Country Style ) ( 4: 36 ) / 11 Years ( Sabres Main Mix 2 ) ( 7: 28 )

In 2005, 4AD released a worldwide limited edition of 10, 000 compilation box set titled, Lullabies to Violaine, a 4-disc set that details every single and EP released from 1982-1996.

The album was recorded by Steve Albini ( who was hired by Watts-Russell on the advice of a 4AD colleague ), completed in two weeks, and released in early 1988.

On the advice of a 4AD colleague, Watts-Russell looked to hire Steve Albini, ex-frontman of Big Black, as the record's engineer and producer.

The Breeders ' demo was sent to 4AD head Ivo Watts-Russell, who immediately signed them to the label.

Pirroni then formed The Models ( who recorded the single, " Freeze ", in 1977 ) and then Rema-Rema, whose " Wheel in the Roses " EP appeared on the 4AD record label the following year.

Once it became clear to her that the album was not going to receive the level of promotion that she had expected, Germano lobbied successfully to have the rights to the album returned to her, and later that year, she signed with the influential British independent label 4AD Records, who, at that time, had a manufacturing and distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records in the US.

4AD founder / president Ivo Watts-Russell was a big fan of Germano's work, and took an unusually active role in her first releases for the label, remixing some of the tracks from Happiness with John Fryer, who had produced and / or engineered several other of the label's acts and had been involved in Watts-Russell's This Mortal Coil project.

The booklet's photographs were taken in one day at a pub opposite the 4AD offices, because, according to Larbalestier, " it was one of the few places that had a raised stage ".

In 1983, 4AD had a minor hit in America with the Modern English single " I Melt With You ".

In 1987, 4AD had a UK number-one hit with the collaged " Pump up the Volume " by

Watts-Russell had founded 4AD in 1980, and the label established itself as one of the key labels in the British post-punk movement.

Germano chose to work with the Tucson-based rock band Giant Sand, but after their tracks had been recorded, 4AD decided that the series would be unfeasible, and scrapped the idea.

All of these bands had also recorded for 4AD.

In November 2008, the band announced that they had completed recording the follow-up to Let's Get Out of This Country, and in February 2009, they announced that they had signed to 4AD.