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Harold Budd, iconic ambient composer, collaborator, and friend has died
- Rolling Stone
- 08 Dec 2020
Collaborator and friend Harold Budd has died, aged 84.
It is with deep sadness that we mark the passing of dear friend and collaborator Harold Budd. Budd was an iconic composer and multi-instrumentalist who first collaborated with Cocteau…
Read moreDavid Lynch praises “Song to the Siren” and Liz in daily update
- Brooklyn Vegan
- 28 Nov 2020
Lynch has been broadcasting a daily “Weather Report” during the pandemic.
In his 25th November instalment, the famed director—who has been a long-time fan of Cocteau Twins since the early 80s—digressed into a brief recollection of his love…
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Latest Lost Horizons News
- NEWS
- 28 Nov 2020
There’s a lot of happening in anticipation of the release of second LP—a double album, actually—entitled In Quiet Moments.
Lost Horizons is the name for the ongoing musical collaboration between Cocteau Twins’ Simon…
Read moreDiscovering the Women of Shoegaze from 1988-1994, with DJ ELLES
- The Vinyl Factory
- 18 Nov 2020
Doe-eyed dream pop and drone, side-by-side.
Shoegaze is a genre that came to prominence during the 1980s, beginning in the UK before expanding globally. Also known as dream pop, and fuelled by groups like Cocteau Twins and My Bloody Valentine,…
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Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd release collaboration
- NEWS
- 10 Nov 2020
Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd have announced the forthcoming release of Another Flower.
The LP, which was recorded at Robin’s home studio in France in 2013, will be released in December 2020 on Robin’s Soleil Après Minuit label,…
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Tim Burgess and Simon Raymonde co-host Twitter ‘Listening Party’ for Four-Calendar Café
- NEWS
- 19 Oct 2020
The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess continues to show the love for Cocteau Twins with his Twitter ‘listening parties.’
Burgess regularly selects one of his favourite albums and invites Twitter followers to listen and comment in a sort of virtual…
Read moreLost Horizons Announce Double Album, Share New Song
- Pitchfork
- 07 Oct 2020
John Grant, Porridge Radio’s Dana Margolin, Marissa Nadler, and others feature on Raymonde and Richie Thomas’s In Quiet Moments.
Lost Horizons—the band featuring Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and former Dif Juz drummer Richie…
Read moreCocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde Announces New Lost Horizons Album
- Rolling Stone
- 07 Oct 2020
Simon Raymonde (Cocteau Twins) and Richie Thomas (Dif Juz) are putting out a new album under the project name Lost Horizons.
The double LP, titled In Quiet Moments, will be released in two parts on December 4th, 2020, and February…
Read moreRobin Guthrie remixes singer Jack Colwell’s “In My Dreams”
- Brooklyn Vegan
- 23 Sep 2020
Australian singer-songwriter Jack Colwell released Swandream back in the spring, a record loaded with lush, moody ballads and soaring anthems. One of those ballads, “In My Dreams,” has just been remixed by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins…
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“Heaven or Las Vegas” among Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”
- Rolling Stone
- 22 Sep 2020
Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time was originally published in 2003, with a slight update in 2012.
Here’s what they had to say about Heaven or Las Vegas, which ranks at #245:
“Cocteau…
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