Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies 11/1/19 Love Is In Charge A5

Love Is In Charge A5

Slowdive – PygmalionA bold and atmospheric departure from their earlier shoegaze sound

Surrender Under Protest [Live / 2018]

The B side is a ’63 Jimmy Gordon tittyshaker that rips so much they insisted on adding additional z’s to that “Buzzzzzz”

Casiotone on steroids and reverberant warehouse throb

Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies 11/1/19 Love Is In Charge A5The Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins catalogue unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take