“Ectefamof oitavito fles eth yll-anif / snoitatimil noitae chus sec-cus / namukadnu itnemavom lacigolochysp.” “Violaine”
Violaine (2)
- October 1996
- Fontana/Mercury & Capitol
- CTDD6
- 11 min, 44 sec
Track listing
- Violaine
- Circling Girl
- Alice
Formats
- CD
- Digital
Performers
Release notes
- Written, produced and engineered by Cocteau Twins.
- Additional engineering by Mitsuo Tate.
- Photography by Spiros Politis. A Blue Source sleeve.
- Peaked at #56 on the UK album chart.
- “Alice” was originally featured in the soundtrack for the film “Stealing Beauty” (1996), and appears here courtesy of Capitol Records. The song was also included in the soundtrack for “The Lovely Bones” (2009).
- An alternate mix of “Circling Girl” was originally released on the compilation CD/magazine Volume 15.
- “Violaine” has appeared in live performances.
- This was the last Cocteau Twins release by Fontana/Mercury Records (with the exception of the song “Touch Upon Touch,” which was released in late 1996 on the compilation Volume 17).
- Digitally remastered and re-released in 2005 as part of Lullabies to Violaine.
- All tracks from Violaine were included in the 2018 release Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years.
Listen and buy online
Video
“Swirl,” a film by Debbie Tucker Green featuring “Circling Girl,” 2018.
Press
- 4AD to re-release Four-Calendar Café and Milk & Kisses in the US in 2024
- 4AD News | 18-Oct 2023
- Cocteau Twins featured on Spotify’s ‘Bandsplain’ podcast
- NEWS | 16-Sep 2021
- Cocteau Twins’ ‘Milk & Kisses’ Turns 25
- SPIN | 15 Mar 2021
- Cocteau Twins’ ‘Milk & Kisses’ Turns 25: Anniversary Retrospective
- Albumism | 10 Mar 2021
- “The truth is not perfect: Robin Guthrie on the Cocteau Twins’ major label years”
- Sonic Cathedral | 31-May 2020
- Cocteau Twins: “Touch Upon Touch”
- Volume 1996
- “The Cocteau Twins”
- Total Guitar | May 1996
- “East is East and West is West And Here the Twins Shall Meet”
- Addicted to Noise | May 1996
- “Cocteau Twins”
- Raygun | May 1996
- Cocteau Twins: Milk & Kisses
- MOJO | May 1996
- “Shedding the Ethereal Legacy”
- B-Side | May 1996
- “Heaven Handed”
- Guitar Player | Apr 1996
- Interview
- Ozone 1996
- Interview with Robin Guthrie
- The i 1996
- Untitled
- DotMusic | Mar 1996
- “Really Twins Again”
- Music Monitor 1996
- “Embracing Otherness”
- Alternative Press | Jan 1996