Question: Velour 100's 4AD Records-influenced sound often led to comparisons to a band that formed in what year?

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Detrola (album): Detrola is an album by His Name Is Alive, released in 2006.  Four years after being dropped from the 4AD roster, HNIA released this album on their own Silver Mountain Media Group label (with major-label distribution from Sony-BMG).  While many of the band's longtime fans (and 4AD devotees) had been disappointed with the group's final two albums for 4AD, fan reception to "Detrola" was quite positive, with many observing that it was finally a proper follow-up to 1998's 4AD release Ft. Lake.

A Brief History of Love: A Brief History of Love is the debut album from British electronic rock duo The Big Pink.  The album was released on 14 September 2009 on 4AD.  The Big Pink signed with 4AD in February 2009, and won the prestigious "NME" Philip Hall Radar Award for best new act.  The band were also named as "one of the most likely breakout acts of 2009" by the BBC.  Prior to the album's release, the band issued three singles: "Too Young to Love"/"Crystal Visions" on the House Anxiety label in October 2008, "Velvet" on 4AD in April 2009, and the non-album track "Stop the World" in June 2009. " Dominos", the album's first proper single and the band's fourth single overall, preceded the album on 7 September.

Mass (English band): Mass were an English post-punk band.  The band consisted of Gary Asquith, Mick Allen, Mark Cox, and Danny Briottet.  Asquith, Allen and Cox had been members of Rema-Rema.  Mass released a 7" single, "You And I", in 1980 on the 4AD label.  They released the "Labour of Love" LP in 1981, also on 4AD, which saw comparisons made with Joy Division and The Birthday Party.  It spent five weeks on the UK Indie Chart, peaking at number 19.

Retrospective (Red House Painters album): Retrospective is a 2-disc compilation of Red House Painters' songs from the band's 4AD era.  The compilation was released in July 1999.  Disc one is a collection of definitive Red House Painters tracks culled from their debut album "Down Colorful Hill" through 1995's "Ocean Beach", as picked by 4AD label owner Ivo Watts-Russell.  Disc two, subtitled "Demos, Outtakes, Live (1989-1995)", is a collection of unreleased demos and live recordings from their 4AD years.  The essay inside the booklet was written by Rob O'Condor in April 1999.  A working title for this collection was "Red Perspective".

Throwing Muses (1986 album): Throwing Muses is the 1986 debut album of the band Throwing Muses, released on British independent label 4AD.  This was the first album by an American band to be released on 4AD, which had concentrated primarily on British-based acts up to this point.  The release marked a shift in the label's direction; a year later 4AD would sign Pixies based in part on the band's connection to the Muses, and by the mid-1990s much of the label's roster was made up of American bands.

Slowdive: Slowdive are an English rock band that formed in Reading, Berkshire in 1989.  The band consists of Rachel Goswell on vocals and guitar, Simon Scott on drums, Neil Halstead on vocals and guitar, Nick Chaplin on bass and Christian Savill on guitar.  Several other drummers also briefly played with the band, including Adrian Sell, Neil Carter and Ian McCutcheon.  Halstead is the band's primary songwriter.

Spasmodic Caress: Spasmodic Caress were an English post punk/new wave band that played many gigs along the East Coast in Essex, Ipswich, Colchester and London between 1979 and 1984.  They recorded a track for the 4AD Records 12" compilation "Presage(s)" in 1980 and performed at 4ad sponsored gigs in London with other 4ad artists including Modern English, In Camera and Bauhaus.  Another track "Register of Electors" was recorded at the same time and is now included in the download version of Presages.  They also released two albums, "Hillside '79" and "Fragments Of" on Falling A Records.  Bassist Peter Ashby went on to form the insane picnic with Barry Lamb.

Velour 100: Velour 100 was a dream pop / ethereal rock band from Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States.  The band existed from 1995 to 2000, with most of its music seeing release via Tooth & Nail Records in 1996 & 1997.  The band was essentially masterminded by multi-instrumentalist Trey Many of His Name Is Alive and Liquorice.  Warren Defever (also of His Name Is Alive) helped with production.  The band's 4AD Records-influenced sound often led to comparisons to artists such as Cocteau Twins, Low, and Slowdive.

Warren Defever: Warren Defever (first name often spelled Warn; born April 30, 1969) is a musician and producer originally from Livonia, Michigan now based in Detroit.  He is most known for his chameleonic project His Name Is Alive, though he is active in numerous other circles.  He produced, engineered, and or remixed recordings by Iggy and the Stooges, Easy Action, Low, Ida, Michael Hurley, Califone, Yoko Ono, Thurston Moore, the Gories, the Go, Nomo, Saturday Looks Good to Me, Ethan Daniel Davidson, Faruq Z. Bey, the Von Bondies, Reba Fritz, Destroy All Monsters, Jenny Toomey, Slumber Party, John Sinclair, Elizabeth Mitchell & Lisa Loeb, as well as HNIA offshoot Velour 100.

It'll End in Tears: It'll End in Tears is the first album released by 4AD collective This Mortal Coil, an umbrella title for a loose grouping of guest musicians and vocalists brought together by label boss Ivo Watts-Russell.  The album was released on 1 October 1984, and reached #38 on the UK Albums Chart.  It features many of the artists on the 4AD roster at the time, including Cocteau Twins, Colourbox, and Dead Can Dance; as well as key post-punk figure Howard Devoto, who sang "Holocaust", one of two covers of songs from the "Third/Sister Lovers" album by Big Star.  The other Alex Chilton-penned track, album opener "Kangaroo", was released as a single to promote the album.  Two key songs were performed by Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, including Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren", which reached #66 on the UK Charts when released as This Mortal Coil's debut single a year before the album.  The song remained on the UK Indie Chart for almost two years.  Fraser also performed on "Another Day" by Roy Harper.  4AD would go on to release two further albums under the name of This Mortal Coil: "Filigree & Shadow" (1986) and "Blood" (1991).

Supporting paragraphs: Velour 100 Slowdive
Answer: 1989