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61: Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels Featuring classics like “Sugar Hiccup” and “Musette And Drums,” the Scottish band’s 1983 album is markedly lighter than their previous work, pointing signs towards the beauty and sophistication that would characterize future albums. 60: Elton John – Too...
Carter and Barthel were inspired by artists including: the Beatles, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, J Dilla, the Flaming Lips, John Frusciante, Serge Gainsbourg, Madlib, Sonic Youth, Yes, Kevin Shields and Prince.They write and record in a remote barn in Upstate New York called Harmonie Lodge. ...
by Andy KellmanComing off like a dark hybrid of the Cocteau Twins and Joy Division/New Order, the Scottish band Lowlife was formed in 1985 by ex-Cocteau Twins (Garlands era) bassist Will Heggie and v...
In Cocteau Twins, she was known for singing in an indecipherable language that nonetheless communicated; here she’s given real lyrics but she knows all the feeling is in the sound. The way she stretches the phrase "waiting to hold you" to its breaking point makes the sense of longing ...
“I think it’s dark and it looks like rain,” Robert Smith’s love observes in the greatest weather prediction in rock since John Fogerty got portentous 20 years earlier, and really, by the Cocteau Twins-like first chord, you’re already soaked. There’s not a ton of song to “...
has such a suave eighties groove, it takes real concentration to appreciate its manifold layers. tesfaye mined late new wave bands like roxy music, a-ha, and cocteau twins for the song’s backbone, let max martin do his pop wizardry, and let the sax rip. — s.g. ‘privilege’ (2018...
The songs on Sun’s Signature have been in the works for over two decades, since the breakup of Cocteau Twins in 1997.4. The Smile: “Pana-vision”The Smile is a new group composed of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood along with Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinne...
89. Cocteau Twins, “Ivo” 90. Depeche Mode, “Lie to Me” 91. Eurythmics, “Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)” 92. Lou Reed, “I Love You, Suzanne” 93. Bronski Beat, “Why?” 94. Midnight Oil, “Best of Both Worlds” 95. Cabaret Voltaire, “Sensoria” ...
in which metal guitars slice like knives, and on “Teardrop,” in which Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser and a harpsichord sparkle in sunlit relief against the shuffling dub backdrop. Still, the band hasn’t cut ties with their subterranean roots; reggae’s influence runs deep on songs like...