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Review: Elizabeth Fraser Live at Royal Festival Hall
- The Guardian
- 07 Aug 2012
At the height of the Cocteau Twins’ fame, when they were one of the bands on whom the very notion of indie music in the 80s rested, it would have…
Read moreI’m so excited to have made this decision to perform
- The Guardian
- 23 Jun 2012
Since the Cocteau Twins split 15 years ago, their otherworldly singer has lived a quiet life in Bristol. But in August, as part of Antony Hegarty’s Meltdown festival, the one-time darling of the music press will sing her own songs for the first time…
Read moreReaders’ panel: Cocteau Twins
- The Guardian
- 04 May 2012
Five readers tell us why they love the band, and our Twitter followers recommend the best tracks for newcomers
Former Cocteau Twins singer Elizabeth Fraser announced this week she is to play two dates at the Royal Festival Hall as part of…
Read more100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
- SPIN
- 03 May 2012
#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…
Read moreCocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser to perform at Meltdown festival
- The Guardian
- 30 Apr 2012
Singer with 1980s band who has ‘the voice of God’ persuaded to play two dates at Royal Festival Hall
She has not performed solo since the Cocteau Twins split in 1998, but Elizabeth Fraser, whose spectral voice was once described as “the voice…
Read moreEnglish as a Second Language: A Salute to the Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser
- The Nervous Breakdown
- 27 Jan 2012
The late eighties were a great time to be a fanboy of weirdo new wave ladysingers from outer space (mainly Britain).
It seemed like every time you turned on your new favorite show, “120 Minutes,” some wackadoodle dame dripping with otherworldly…
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Interview with Robin Guthrie
- MOJO
- 01 Dec 2011
One half of indie’s most ethereal duo on the eternal quest for “musical finesse and beauty.”
Read moreRobin Guthrie & Brendan Perry: 4AD Revisited
- NPR “Favorite Sessions”
- 26 Jul 2011
It all started with a clever idea from KEXP’s DJ El Toro: “4AD 4VR,” a three-hour show featuring music from 4AD Records, a label that helped define a new genre of music. Back in the ’80s and ’90s, if you saw the 4AD logo on the back of an album, you…
Read moreBuilding an Iconic Sound: Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie
- XLR8R
- 22 Dec 2010
When it comes to the creating the gauzy, otherworldly guitar atmospheres of the shoegaze and proto-Brit-pop scenes, Robin Guthrie has probably had his hand in a greater number of iconic records than even Kevin Shields.
With a list of production…
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Interview with Robin Guthrie
- Sup Magazine
- 04 Aug 2010
Robin Guthrie means a lot of things to a lot of different people.
To most, he’s an object of a rather special kind of fanaticism, as when he was in his late teens, he formed the oft-celebrated UK dream-pop band Cocteau Twins with his then-girlfriend…
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