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Cocteau Twins: Head Over Heels (4AD)

Barney Hoskyns, NME, Fall 1983

THE COCTEAU TWINS are innocents aboard the jolly roger of "positive-punk" specimens, blushing songbirds amidst the mascara'd goth macaws of Gene Loves Jezebel and Xmal Deutschland and Blood & Roses. (Were they kidnapped, perhaps?)

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