4AD records - a label that's still made with love

Late-80s home of the Cocteau Twins and Pixies has "a certain class", and a host of new artists faithful to its aestheticWhat is it about a record label that makes it the sort of place you want to spend time in? When it first emerged in the 1980s, 4AD felt like one of the most enigmatic worlds, the sort of label that you wanted to collect, that brought a sense of "brand loyalty" way before it occurred to anyone to talk about music in such crass terms. I'm sure it isn't just the friend in the year...

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