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Mood Music for the Arty
- 7 Days
- 02 Oct 1988
Outside of the 15 or 20 top-selling acts at any given time, the pop audience consists mainly of cults. Some cults are larger than others. many artists can sell half a million copies of every album and fill a 1000-seat theater in 15 cities once a year;…
Read moreThe Elusive Cocteau Twins: ‘Blue Bell Knoll’ Rings Through Record Stores - Another Majestically Murky Album
- Los Angeles Times
- 02 Oct 1988
Sounding the death knoll for the Cocteaus myth
- Record Mirror
- 01 Oct 1988
More dictionaries have been plundered and more Thesauri flicked through in the cause of describing the haunting sound of the Cocteau Twins than for any other band. But they can’t really be that weird can they?
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Velvet Opera
- Offbeat
- 01 Oct 1988
The Cocteau Twins have, over the years, emerged as an enigma. You know the kind of thing, Victorian-like waifs who flutter through existence with little perception of the enormities of real life, lofty souls who’ve cocooned themselves in an artistic…
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