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.