The title of this song would have sounded familiar to Cocteau fans. Three years earlier it featured in the lyrics of My Love Paramour. Mixing several of the band's common practices with some rather unusual ones Ooze Out And Away, Onehow turns out to be quite a noteworthy effort. The most unusual element is the structure of the song: two and a half minutes of very soft, almost hesitant guitar chords, romantic whispering vocals, some dreamy keyboards. Just when you feel everything is about to 'ooze out' the song suddenly leaps to life. The final part is totally differen… read more
The title of this song would have sounded familiar to Cocteau fans. Three years earlier it featured in the lyrics of My Love Paramour. Mixing several… read more
The title of this song would have sounded familiar to Cocteau fans. Three years earlier it featured in the lyrics of My Love Paramour. Mixing several of the band's common practices … read more
The Moon and the Melodies (1986) is the product of a one-off collaboration between the Scottish group Cocteau Twins and the American composer Harold Budd. The Cocteau Twins refused to sign the album with the band's name and used their individual names instead. The album has the characteristic style — heavily-treated guitar sounds and strangely euphoric vocalising — that can be heard in the group's other work from the same period, for example on the EP "Echoes in a Shallow Bay" or the album Victorialand. Harold Budd's stylistic piano tonalities and phrasing … read more
The Moon and the Melodies (1986) is the product of a one-off collaboration between the Scottish group Cocteau Twins and the American composer Harold Budd. The Cocteau Twins refused to sign … read more
The Moon and the Melodies (1986) is the product of a one-off collaboration between the Scottish group Cocteau Twins and the American composer Harold Budd. The Cocteau Twins refused to sign the album with the band's name and used t… read more