“Really, [Twinlights] was kind of an exercise, if you like, for ourselves. We thought, ‘We write nice bits of music, but can we write a song?’ You know, if you took all this stuff away—if you took all the effects off a minute—is there actually a song underneath? Four-track EPs are just brilliant because they’re like little experiments. You’re dipping your toe in a pool you don’t normally spend any time in. You think, ‘Well, look, I’d like to do something acoustic. I don’t really want to make a whole album of it, because people will think this is our new direction.’ With the Twinlights thing and the Otherness thing, we were able to do that and do things we don’t normally do. That’s a great arena for us. I want to put out two or three of these every year.” Simon Raymonde

“My love addiction was worse than ever. I was maniacal. Twinlights is about that man. My ‘last goodbye,’ as it were. I was too needy and he was too much of an avoidance person. Naturally.” Elizabeth Fraser

• September 1995
• Fontana/Mercury & Capitol
• CTCD3
• 13 min, 55 sec

Track listing

1. Rilkean Heart
2. Golden-Vein
3. Pink Orange Red
4. Half-Gifts

Formats

• Vinyl
• CD
• Digital

Performers

• Elizabeth Fraser
• Robin Guthrie
• Simon Raymonde
• Phil Boyden, Violin
• Paul Costin, Violin
• Fiona Griffith, Viola
• Helen Thomas, Cello

Release notes

• Written, performed and produced by Cocteau Twins.
• Recorded and mixed at September Sound.
• Additional recordings at Wessex.
• String arrangements for “Half-Gifts” by Thomas M. Hill.
• A Blue Source sleeve. Photography by Nick Knight.

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