Beggar's Archive has announced a comprehensive box of the music of This Mortal Coil, 4AD Records' beloved dreampop collective.

Though the band was anchored by label head Ivo Watts-Russell, they were far from the "house band" at 4AD. Featuring a free-flowing lineup that featured members of Dead Can Dance, The Cocteau Twins, Dif Juz and the Pixies, the band was crafted, per the official website, "to allow artists the creative freedom to record material outside of the realm of what was expected of them." With offbeat covers of relatively unusual or obscure songs - Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" is one such early example - the group indeed challenged and pleased underground audiences from 1983 until 1991. Before retiring from the industry, Watts-Russell created a project, The Hope Blister, that was very similar to This Mortal Coil's ambient sonic stylings, albeit with a fixed lineup.

The four-disc box set will feature remastered, Japanese-pressed HDCD editions of the band's three albums - It'll End in Tears (1984), Filigree & Shadow (1986) and Blood - with newly redesigned gatefold artwork by Watts-Russell and Vaughan Oliver, a longtime collaborator with 4AD. While those three albums will be released separately at a later date, this box will include a bonus disc featuring the band's three non-LP singles in full, a track from a multi-artist compilation and two previously unreleased songs intended for a single with Rough Trade but unused.

And be on the lookout, HD fans: plans are afoot for the entire box to be released on Blu-Ray along with video content under the title Tears in the Dropbox. For now, the set comes out November 8 in the U.S. and a day early worldwide. Hit the jump for order links and the track list. (Due credit to our pals at Slicing Up Eyeballs for getting to this story first.)

This Mortal Coil: The HDCD Box Set (4AD/Beggar's Archive, 2011)

Disc 1: It'll End in Tears (originally released as 4AD CAD-411, 1984)

1. Kanga-Roo
2. Song to the Siren
3. Holocaust
4. Fyt
5. Fond Affections
6. The Last Ray
7. Another Day
8. Waves Become Wings
9. Barramundi
10. Dreams Made Flesh
11. Not Me
12. A Single Wish

Disc 2: Filigree & Shadow (originally released as 4AD DAD-609, 1986)

1. Velvet Belly
2. The Jeweller
3. Ivy and Neet
4. Meniscus
5. Tarantula
6. My Father
7. Come Here My Love
8. At First, and Then
9. Strength of Strings
10. Morning Glory
11. Inch-Blue
12. I Want to Live
13. Mama K (1)
14. Filigree & Shadow
15. Firebrothers
16. Thaïs (1)
17. I Must Have Been Blind
18. A Heart of Glass
19. Alone
20. Mama K (2)
21. The Horizon Bleeds and Sucks Its Thumb
22. Drugs
23. Red Rain
24. Thaïs (2)

Disc 3: Blood (originally released as 4AD DAD-1005, 1991)

1. Lace Maker
2. Mr. Somewhere
3. Andialu
4. With Tomorrow
5. Loose Joints
6. You and Your Sister
7. Nature's Way
8. I Come and Stand at Every Door
9. Bitter
10. Baby Ray Baby
11. Several Times
12. The Lacemaker II
13. Late Night
14. Ruddy and Wretched
15. Help Me Lift You Up
16. Carolyn's Song
17. D.D. and E.
18. 'Til I Gain Control Again
19. Dreams Are Like Water
20. I Am the Cosmos
21. (Nothing But) Blood

Disc 4: Dust & Guitars

1. Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust
2. Song to the Siren
3. Sixteen Days (Reprise)
4. Kangaroo
5. It'll End in Tears
6. Come Here My Love
7. Drugs
8. Acid, Bitter and Sad
9. We Never Danced *
10. Thais (Bird of Paradise) *

Disc 3, Tracks 1-3 released as 4AD 12" EP BAD-310, 1983
Disc 3, Tracks 4-5 released as 4AD 7" single AD-410, 1984
Disc 3, Tracks 6-7 released as 4AD 10" single BAD-608, 1986
Disc 3, Track 8 released on Lonely is an Eyesore - 4AD CAD-703, 1987
Disc 3, Tracks 9-10 previously unreleased