Press and News
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Two’s Company
- ZigZag
- 01 Oct 1983
When the Cocteau Twins narrowed down to a two-piece (Robin and Elizabeth) in June of this year, they settled down for some re-thinking and some rigourous re-channelling of energies. Quitting their tour support with OMD in Germany with four gigs remaining,…
Read moreHeavenly Twins
- Melody Maker
- 19 Mar 1983
Last September a very strange thing happened.
Three unknown scruffy Scottish urchins took the indie charts by storm with, a debut album, called Garlands, an unbelievably fluid chunk of sultry passion, and a spiralling frieze…
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More doom and gloom or an unrecognised pop solution?
- Jamming
- 15 Mar 1983
Being used, as we are, to bands verbalising at length about their motivations and inspirations, it is unnerving at first to encounter Falkirk’s Cocteau Twins. If you have been charmed by their intoxicating shadowed spell, you might presume that behind…
Read moreCocteau Twins are hard to pin down
- The Morning Call
- 15 Feb 1983
Their hairdos are trendy, but they are not just another stylish haircut band from across the Atlantic.
They aren’t even English; they’re Scottish. They are the only performers in their band, but they don’t use synthesizers (they use tapes).…
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