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A Buyer’s Guide to Cocteau Twins
- Sun-13
- 06 Aug 2020
Cocteau Twins created a world of their own making and soundtracked it with some of the most perfect music ever recorded. Banjo looks into their essential releases and reports back.
Cocteau Twins are a that rarest of things, a unique band;…
Read moreLiz Fraser to contribute to new Jónsi LP
- Pitchfork
- 24 Jun 2020
Liz will be contributing vocals on the track “Cannibal.” The LP is scheduled for release on 2nd October.
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The truth is not perfect: Robin Guthrie on the Cocteau Twins’ major label years
- Sonic Cathedral
- 31 May 2020
“Sometimes when I have to go back and look at that part of my life I get quite upset at the way other people tell the story, because I just can’t relate to it at all. I am constantly surprised by the ever-changing narrative of the story of my band.”
Robin…
Read more100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
- SPIN
- 02 May 2020
#23 - Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil)
In the mid 1980s, filmmaker David Lynch was so enamored with This Mortal Coil’s “Song to the Siren”—featuring Guthrie’s wondrous, muted, airy interpretation of Tim Buckley’s playing on…
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