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4AD Records: Labelled with Love

Wyndham Wallace, Classic Pop, November 2013

A new book, Martin Aston's Facing The Other Way, tells the story of a label that scored just a single number one hit during the first two decades of its existence, but which had a more ambitious, long term goal: to package and release music that would stand the test of time.

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