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Top 100 Albums of the 1990s

  • Pitchfork
  • 17 Nov 2003

090: Cocteau Twins

Heaven or Las Vegas

[4AD; 1990]

Initially, the glacial textures conjured by guitarist Robin Guthrie on Heaven or Las Vegas may seem like frozen artifacts from a forgotten shoegazer…

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Interview with Robin Guthrie

  • Penny Black Music
  • 18 Apr 2003

If anyone else might have to come up with this line, then it might have been Robin Guthrie. A guitarist and a songwriter, Guthrie emerged on to the music scene in 1979, with one of the most important bands of the late 80’s and early 90’s, the Cocteau…

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Ether Madness

Ether Madness

  • Uncut
  • 01 Apr 2003

Re-release of first four albums from missing link between Banshees and Valentines, remastered by Cocteaus’ co-founder Robin Guthrie.

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“Out of the Shadows”

  • The Times
  • 21 Mar 2003

Robin Guthrie is ensconced in the bar of a Paris hotel, a Marlboro Lite gripped between his fingers and a glass of red wine close by. The man who is still best known for his epoch-making work, alongside Elizabeth Fraser, as the founder and mainstay…

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