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Twindrops Keep Falling on my Head
- NME/New Musical Express
- 10 Dec 1983
Robin and Elizabeth, two friends, at 12:30pm are sat, drinking tea from cheap mugs, in the kitchen of their flat. It is a Wednesday.
The flat, in Muswell Hill, London N.10, they share with some people I do not meet. Robin and Elizabeth have…
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Review of ‘Sunburst and Snowblind’
- Melody Maker
- 03 Dec 1983
When the Cocteau Twins perfected their impersonation of Joy Division nobody liked them much; now they’ve learnt another act—The Banshees’ gothic wall of sound—it seems suddenly they’re very desirable.
Yet this four-track EP only serves to…
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Review of ‘Head Over Heels’
- NME/New Musical Express
- 05 Nov 1983
The Cocteau Twins’ new record suggests infinite distance, or at least a massive space. Its first boom is like an avalanche. From there they wing a course over soundscapes that hypothesise Phil Spector producing ‘Spellbound.’
Till I heard…
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And Then There Were Two
- Sounds
- 05 Nov 1983
Winston Smith gets double vision with the Cocteau Twins
Quite Simply
Cocteau Twins (at present best band in the world, no contest) Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie are at home, busily trying to relax.
Many words spring…
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Cocteau Twins Shine On
- Rorschach Testing
- 01 Nov 1983
The delicate duo’s appearance at the most recent ICA week was an absolute joy, and having previously announced that they would be playing completely new material, it was great to see a sell-out crowd. Unfortunately, it was one of about three gigs to…
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Two’s Company
- ZigZag
- 01 Oct 1983
When the Cocteau Twins narrowed down to a two-piece (Robin and Elizabeth) in June of this year, they settled down for some re-thinking and some rigourous re-channelling of energies. Quitting their tour support with OMD in Germany with four gigs remaining,…
Read moreHeavenly Twins
- Melody Maker
- 19 Mar 1983
Last September a very strange thing happened.
Three unknown scruffy Scottish urchins took the indie charts by storm with, a debut album, called Garlands, an unbelievably fluid chunk of sultry passion, and a spiralling frieze…
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More doom and gloom or an unrecognised pop solution?
- Jamming
- 15 Mar 1983
Being used, as we are, to bands verbalising at length about their motivations and inspirations, it is unnerving at first to encounter Falkirk’s Cocteau Twins. If you have been charmed by their intoxicating shadowed spell, you might presume that behind…
Read moreCocteau Twins are hard to pin down
- The Morning Call
- 15 Feb 1983
Their hairdos are trendy, but they are not just another stylish haircut band from across the Atlantic.
They aren’t even English; they’re Scottish. They are the only performers in their band, but they don’t use synthesizers (they use tapes).…
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