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Robin Guthrie to release new EP, “Mockingbird Love” on 15 October
- NEWS
- 20 Sep 2021
Fans can stream “My Courtesan” now on Bandcamp.
Robin Guthrie will release a new EP, Mockingbird Love, on 15 October via his Soleil Après Minuit label and distributed through Darla Records. It’s the first of several releases…
Read moreCocteau Twins featured on Spotify’s ‘Bandsplain’ podcast
- NEWS
- 16 Sep 2021
Spotify’s ‘Bandsplain’ podcast, launched in 2021, featured Cocteau Twins as their focus on 16 September.
According to Spotify, “Bandsplain is a show where host Yasi Salek invites experts to explain cult bands and iconic artists—and why people…
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Cocteau Twins featured in new Uncut’s ‘Ultimate Genre Guide: Shoegaze’
- Uncut
- 15 Sep 2021
Siren songs! From the outposts of industrial Scotland, a bright and mysterious new British psychedelia flowers in the shadow of post-punk. The band’s decayed drone, romance and reverb prove to be the womb of shoegaze.
“The Sonic Cathedral…
Read moreNew release from Oneohtrix Point Never features Elizabeth Fraser
- Pitchfork
- 14 Sep 2021
Artist Daniel Lopatin’s project Oneohtrix Point Never has released a new DVD, featuring a reworking of a previous track, “Tales from the Trash Stratum,” which features vocal sounds by Elizabeth Fraser.
“For someone with such a fiercely individual…
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Poet Christina Pugh invokes Cocteau Twins in new work
- NEWS
- 23 Aug 2021
Prize-winning American poet Christina Pugh has published a new volume of poems, Stardust Media (University of Massachusetts Press). The eponymous poem invokes Elizabeth Fraser…
Read moreSimon Raymonde appears on “The SuperSwell Podcast”
- The SuperSwell Podcast
- 29 Jul 2021
Your host, Paul Cheetham, is joined by one of his absolute musical and music business heroes, Simon Raymonde.
Simon found fame as bass player with the Cocteau Twins, one of the most innovative and inspirational bands of the ’80s & ’90s. …
Read moreMiley Cyrus Performs Cover of “Heaven or Las Vegas” … in Las Vegas
- NEWS
- 06 Jul 2021
In perhaps one of the more surprising intersections of Cocteau Twins music with pop culture, the American pop singer Miley Cyrus surprised—or possibly bewildered—her fans in a recent outdoor performance in Las Vegas,…
Read moreSix Definitive Songs: The ultimate beginner’s guide to Cocteau Twins
- Far Out
- 01 Jul 2021
UK culture and travel magazine Far Out has thrown its hat into the ring of ‘definitive beginner’s guides’ to Cocteau Twins music.
This time, writer Tom Taylor mixes in some surprises, like “Sea, Swallow Me” from the 1986 collaboration…
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BBC Radio 6 Inducts Heaven or Las Vegas Into Music Album Club
- BBC Radio 6
- 30 Jun 2021
BBC Radio 6’s Steve Lamacq selected Heaven or Las Vegas (4AD, 1990) as the latest inductee for its Sounds Music Album Club.
The retrospective honors keep coming for Cocteau Twins’ sixth studio album, which was originally released…
Read moreExploring the Black roots of shoegaze and dream pop
- MixMag
- 24 May 2021
It is common knowledge that people of the African diaspora are to be thanked for conceiving or at the very least inspiring all forms of contemporary Western music.
The polyrhythmic percussion found throughout modern metal can be very easily…
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