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Review of “BBC Sessions”

  • Billboard
  • 06 Nov 1999

The influence of England’s Cocteau Twins has ranged far and wide since the early ’80s, their pop phantasmagoria affecting bands as disparate and significant as My Bloody Valentine and Massive Attack — the latter even drafting the Twins’ vocalist Elisabeth…

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Review of ‘BBC Sessions’

  • Pitchfork
  • 12 Oct 1999

Main entry: twomb

Pronunciation: ‘twüm

Etymology: tomb, womb: Middle English tombe, akin to Old High German wamba belly

Function: noun

1: an object that resembles a both a womb and a tomb

2: an excavation…

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