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I’m suffering from old git syndrome (Interview)
- Uncut
- 20 May 2015
“I’m suffering from old git syndrome at the moment,” Robin Guthrie admits to Uncut. “I’ve been suffering from it since my twenties…” Guthrie is at home in a small village in the north west of France. He is, he explains, in the throes…
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Reviews of ‘Treasure’ and ‘Blue Bell Knoll’
- The New Perfect Collection
- 21 Feb 2015
Treasure
There can hardly be a word in the English language more precisely defined, yet more persistently misused, than unique.
It’s really not complicated—it simply means something is one of a kind, nothing more,…
Read moreWriting Something Complete: An Interview With Robin Guthrie
- Pop Matters
- 07 Jan 2015
As the co-founder of shoegaze legends Cocteau Twins, Robin Guthrie has a well-deserved place in music history. The swirling guitar effects and intricate compositions on Treasure and Blue Bell Knoll were equally as innovative…
Read moreInterview with Robin Guthrie
- Post-Punk.com
- 23 Sep 2014
In 2014 we interviewed Cocteau Twins’ Founder/Maestro/Guitarist Robin Guthrie.
Robin was a pleasure to talk to, and we discussed 4AD and their recent reissue campaigns, plus Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil. We also spoke about his scoring…
Read moreThe Byline: Simon Raymonde On A Love Affair With Spurs
- The Quietus
- 18 Aug 2014
“And David Seaman will be very disappointed about that…
Despite living my own relatively rock & roll existence in the Cocteau Twins, even back in the 80s and 90s I was more interested in catching a passing glance into the blacked-out…
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Twin Peaks
- Q
- 01 Aug 2014
The Cocteau Twins created their own soundworld, one that 25 years on still defies imitation.
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Reviews of ‘Blue Bell Knoll’ and ‘Heaven or Las Vegas’
- Pitchfork
- 16 Jul 2014
Cocteau Twins’ fifth and sixth albums are seeing deluxe vinyl reissues this week. These two releases—which were their last for 4AD—present the boundary-pushing innovators as first and foremost a pop band. And pop rarely sounds as transformative and…
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Cocteau Twins: The Complete Guide
- Clash
- 14 Jul 2014
As two classic LPs are reissued…
Two of the most bewitching entries in 4AD’s back catalogue have been repressed on vinyl for the first time since their original release—and as Blue Bell Knoll and Heaven Or Las Vegas…
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Divine Rapture: Simon Raymonde revisits Cocteau Twins’ purple patch
- The Skinny
- 01 Jul 2014
As 4AD re-release Cocteau Twins’ seminal albums Blue Bell Knoll and Heaven or Las Vegas, Simon Raymonde tells us what life in the fold was like during the band’s commercial peak
Ever since Liz Fraser and Robin Guthrie…
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