#455/456/457/1090
November 12 1985
Cocteau Twins
Aikea-Guinea
3.25 out of 5
Dynamine
4.25 out of 5
Echoes in a Shallow Bay
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Aikea-Guinea
Pink Orange Red
Plain Tiger
Sultitan Itan
Melonella
Settle in, children, we have fairy tales bedtime stories to read and we need a soundtrack to whisk us away to those faraway magical & haunting lands.
The Twins released 3 eps in 85 and, even though we don’t do EPs, per se, that’s the equivalent of an album so I’m going to listen and we’ll just lump em all together.
Fraser is in full Siouxie mode here and, while it’s pleasant, it’s rather somnambulant, way more experimental than they have been and that’s saying something.
The music gets more assured (although still under the thumb of persistent drum programming, but, whatevs.
You know what there should’ve been? A Cocteau Twins/Angelo Badalamenti team up.
For a band experimenting in the studio, they are truly on their game.
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