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4AD Records Celebrates Belated 40th Anniversary With Covers Collection Featuring Future Islands, Big Thief, More (EXCLUSIVE)

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Jonathan Cohen Esteemed independent record label 4AD is belatedly celebrating its 40th anniversary with “Bills and Aches and Blues,” an 18-track collection of vintage songs recorded by new and current acts on its roster.

The series launched digitally today with Tkay Maidza covering Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?”; U.S. Girls reworking The Birthday Party’s “Junkyard”; Aldous Harding interpreting Deerhunter’s “Revival”; The Breeders taking on His Name Is Alive’s “Dirt Eaters”; and Maria Somerville covering Air Miami’s “Seabird.”Founded in the U.K.

in 1980 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, 4AD has been home to such alternative music favorites as Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Stereolab, TV On The Radio, Lush, Grimes and the National.

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