Press and News
If you know of a press clip we might have missed, or if you can help us fill in the blanks where we know when and where a story was published, but little else, we encourage you to contact us. Some of these—particularly older stories—have not yet been transcribed. We provide links to original stories wherever possible.
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Atlanta’s Epiphany
- Footnotes
- 06 Nov 1990
The Cocteau Twins don’t do interviews. Well, not many.
And certainly not many long-distance ones from Lyon, France in the middle of their first tour in four years.
Regarded by many fans and critics as one of the most elusive, enigmatic…
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The ‘Teau Nailed
- International Musician & Recording World
- 01 Nov 1990
Philip Bradley wades through the swirling smoke, beats back the imaginary flying dragons, fends off the 100 foot centipede and all because… of the Cocteau Twins.
The Cocteau Twins are looking well relaxed - not a shroud of mystical smoke…
Read moreCocteau Twins: Heaven or Las Vegas
- Q
- 01 Oct 1990
“THIS WARM BATH of a record is a sensual invitation to wallow in an opiate haze of drifting melody” – Q’s review of The Cocteau Twins’ last album, 1988’s Blue Bell Knoll, wasn’t alone in its swooning, physical response to…
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Polished Plebians
- Alternative Press
- 01 Oct 1990
How do you begin to talk to a band like the Cocteau Twins? The bulk of their lyrics are 98% unintelligible; even as critics seem to marvel at the comprehensibility of—wow!—whole groups of words on Heaven or Las Vegas, the group’s latest…
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Heavenly Bodies
- Select
- 01 Oct 1990
How much of a gamble is the Cocteau Twins’ new album, ‘Heaven or Las Vegas’, and can you really imagine these ethereal spirits playing America’s tackiest nightclub mecca? After the spectral nursery rhymes of their last album two years ago, they seem…
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