Review of Heaven or Las Vegas

• By “Bartender”
• Sputnik Music
• 16-Jan 2005

The Cocteau Twins are, in many ways, something of an unfortunate band to review.

On the one hand, their style is something fairly different (more or less unique) and has the potential to provide for some exotic description, but on the other, there seem to be a limited number of phrases that a reviewer can use in such description. Once you’ve run through the “shimmering basslines”, “glacial melodies” and “ethereal soundscapes” which “first freeze the mind and then slowly release it to hitherto unexperienced horizons of beauty”, you’ve got a review which reads just like every other glacial, shimmering, ethereal Cocteau Twins review out there.

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