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Barney Hoskyns, Word, The, October 2011
OVER A DECADE AGO, a very nice man named Simon Raymonde – son of cult '60s arranger Ivor – came to my house to answer questions about his former band the Cocteau Twins. On his way out he casually mentioned the record label he'd started with his fellow Twin, Robin Guthrie.
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