Cocteau Twins And Harold Budd
Cocteau Twins And Harold Budd - The Moon and the Melodies (Vinyl LP)(4AD)
Format: Vinyl LP
Cat No: 4AD0642LP
Almost forty years after it was initially released, ‘The Moon and the Melodies’ by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on vinyl for the first time, remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself.
‘The 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 signalled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path they’d never take again.
Over the ensuing years, ‘The Moon and the Melodies’ has attracted a passionate fanbase. Its most atmospheric tracks routinely turn up in ambient DJ sets. ‘Sea, Swallow Me’ is one of the Cocteau Twins’ most streamed songs, having found a new life on TikTok, where it serves as the soundtrack to innumerable expressions of hard-to express
melancholy.
TRACKLISTING:
Sea, Swallow Me
Memory Gongs
Why Do You Love Me?
Eyes are Mosaics
She Will Destroy You
The Ghost Has No Home
Bloody and Blunt
Ooze Out and Away,
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