“What I’ve got to do is get honest, to stop doing what I was doing. Unfortunately, and this is typical of me, I tend to go from one extreme to the other. To go from an album like Blue Bell Knoll, which is so heavily disguised and removed from reality, to Heaven or Las Vegas, or even more to this one, where everything on it is in English and it’s all audible…it is extreme, I think. But it seems important for me to do that.” Elizabeth Fraser
Evangeline
- September 1993
- Fontana/Mercury
- CTCD1
- 11 min, 24 sec
Track listing
- Evangeline
- Mud and Dark
- Summer-blink
Formats
- Vinyl
- Cassette
- CD
- Digital
Performers
Release notes
- All songs written, performed, and produced by Cocteau Twins.
- Additional Engineering: Lincoln Fong.
- Recorded and mixed at September Sound, London.
- Additional Guitars on “Evangeline” by Mitsuo Tate and Ben Blakeman.
- Original photography by Walter Wick. Sleeve design by Lifeboat Matey.
- Peaked at #34 on the UK album chart.
- A promotional video was produced for “Evangeline.”
- “Evangeline” has appeared in live performances.
- Digitally remastered and re-released in 2005 as part of Lullabies to Violaine.
- All tracks from Evangeline were included in the 2018 release Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years.
- The song “Mud and Dark” is a retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Echo and Narcissus.
Listen and buy online
Video
“Evangeline” © 1993 Mercury/Fontana.
Press
- 4AD to re-release Four-Calendar Café and Milk & Kisses in the US in 2024
- 4AD News | 18-Oct 2023
- Cocteau Twins featured on Spotify’s ‘Bandsplain’ podcast
- NEWS | 16-Sep 2021
- “Six Definitive Songs: The ultimate beginner’s guide to Cocteau Twins”
- Far Out | Jul 2021
- Tim Burgess and Simon Raymonde co-host Twitter ‘Listening Party’ for Four-Calendar Café
- NEWS | 18-Oct 2020
- “A Buyer’s Guide to Cocteau Twins”
- Sun-13 | 6-Aug 2020
- “The truth is not perfect: Robin Guthrie on the Cocteau Twins’ major label years”
- Sonic Cathedral | 31-May 2020
- “Growing apart together”
- The Scotsman | 21-May 1994
- Interview
- Polish Television TVP2 | May 1994
- “Virtual Ethereality”
- Creem | May 1994
- “Café of Pain”
- B-Side | Apr/May 1994
- “At the Cocteau Café”
- Los Angeles Times | 02-Apr 1994
- “The Demons Within”
- Propaganda: Gothic Chronicle | April 1994
- Interview
- On the Edge | Apr 1994
- Interview with Robin Guthrie
- Dewdrops Fanzine 1994
- “Ethereal this, thicky”
- Alternative Press | Feb 1994
- “Heart to Tape”
- Mix | Dec 1993
- Review of Four-Calendar Café
- Entertainment Weekly | 19-Nov 1993
- Interview
- Raygun | Nov 1993
- “Sound Whirl”
- The Wire | Nov 1993
- Review of Four-Calendar Café
- Details | Nov 1993
- Retrospective Discography
- NME/New Musical Express | 02-Oct 1993
- Untitled
- NME/New Musical Express | 02-Oct 1993
- “No More Pre-Raphaelite Bullshit”
- Lime Lizard | Oct 1993
- “Obscured by Words”
- Mondo 2000 | Oct 1993
- “Fraser-Guided Melodies”
- Select | Oct 1993
- “Botanic Rites”
- Vox | Oct 1993
- Review of Four-Calendar Café
- Melody Maker 1993
- Interview
- WXPN Philadelphia Radio 1993
- Interview
- Anti-Matter | Oct 1993
- Twin machine
- Select | Oct 1993
- “Dreams of Consciousness”
- Melody Maker | 11-Sep 1993
- “Cocteaus’ Experiential ‘Calendar’”
- Billboard | 11-Sep 1993