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Interview by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 4 January 1986

A new year and a new starter for THE COCTEAU TWINS who team up with CHRIS ROBERTS for talk, turkey and all the trimmings. ...

Cocteau Twins: Beacon Theater, New York NY

Live Review by Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 10 January 1991

THE COCTEAU twins are the prototypal ethereal postpunk group, their diaphanous music aerated by layers of rippling guitars and Liz Fraser's virtuoso wordless vocals. Prone ...

Cocteau Twins: "None Of This Should Have Happened"

Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, April 1987

Unlistenable early tapes. Refusals to appear on Top Of The Pops. Information-free record sleeves. A mistrust of people "who can play all the strings on ...

Cocteau Twins (1996)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 8 February 1996

After a brief discussion of Scottish cuisine, Robin Guthrie, Liz Fraser and Simon Raymonde talk about the delayed release of their latest (and last) album Milk and Kisses; and about Britpop, leaving 4AD, signing to Fontana and the neglect of previous album Four-Calendar Café; plus the process of writing and recording, Liz's voice and lyrics, the strains of touring, the missing of family... and UFO sightings!

File format: mp3; file size: 67.3mb, interview length: 1h 10' 05" sound quality: ****

Cocteau Twins: The Cocteau Twins

Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, The Word, April 2006

IN THE SUMMER of 1981, a member of staff at the Earl's Court branch of Beggars Banquet Records noticed an odd-looking couple loitering outside the ...

Cocteau Twins: Heavenly Twins

Interview by Helen Fitzgerald, Melody Maker, 19 March 1983

LAST SEPTEMBER a very strange thing happened. Three unknown scruffy Scottish urchins took the indie charts by storm with, a debut album, called Garlands, an ...

Cocteau Twins: Victorialand

Review by Mat Snow, NME, 12 April 1986

A PRE-RAPHAELITE beauty sweeps through trailing fronds and hothouse blooms... ...

Cocteau Twins: The Cocteau Twins: Manchester Academy

Live Review by Simon Warner, The Guardian, 15 February 1994

THE CORE TRIO, more triplets than twins, have become weary of the media tag locating them as other-worldly beings, cult objects disconnected from the realities ...

Mazzy Star: Give 'Em Enough Hope

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 5 January 1991

Mazzy Star's debut album, She Hangs Brightly, was voted one of the Top Ten albums of 1990 by the Maker writers. This year they look ...

One Dove: Disc-O-Tech: One Dove

Profile by Frank Owen, Vibe, March 1994

THEY'VE BEEN called "the Cocteau Twins just back from Ibiza" and "King Tubby meets the Beach Boys." But perhaps it's dubmeister Jim McKinven who put ...

Robin Guthrie: Out of the Shadows

Interview by David Sinclair, The Times, 21 March 2003

Why has the limelight-shy former Cocteau twin Robin Guthrie gone solo? ...

Lush: Spooky (4AD/Reprise) ***

Review by Simon Reynolds, Rolling Stone, 16 April 1992

FOR THE past few years, British indie rock has been dominated by bands known as shoegazers (because they're shy onstage), purveying a style of music ...

Snowbird: Moon (Bella Union)

Review and Interview by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, February 2014

Simon Raymonde and Stephanie Dosen's mysterious, Cocteaus-y nightscapes. ...

Half Man Half Biscuit: System Club, Liverpool

Live Review by John McCready, New Musical Express, 29 March 1986

WARNING: PACEMAKERS TO BE SHOWN ...

The Go-Betweens: Go-Betweens Aim To Strike Public Chord

Profile and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Billboard, 14 January 1989

AT THE END of the day, what do good reviews really mean? In the case of the Go-Betweens, whose debut Capitol album 16 Lovers Lane ...

My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

Review by Martin Aston, Q, January 1992

FACED WITH MY Bloody Valentine's formative fumblings, few would have predicted that this garage lurch could metamorphosise into the swooning melody crush that constituted 1988's ...

Lush: Hazy Daze For The Scenesters

Profile by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 2 February 1992

Just about the only thing happening in British indie music last year was a rash of blurry, neo-psychedelic bands known as 'shoegazers' or The Scene ...

Elastica, Cranberries, The: The Cranberries, Elastica: Astoria 2, London

Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 17 January 1994

AS LIMERICK pop quartet the Cranberries might warn London pop quartet Elastica, beware the tag Next Big Thing. The Irish band basked in that title ...

Karen Elson: Double Roses

Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 6 April 2017

IN THE SEVEN YEARS since Karen Elson's The Ghost Who Walks, there have been glimpses of the woman who was to emerge on Double Roses. ...

Lush: Spooky

Review by David Cavanagh, Select, February 1992

HOW ON EARTH would you explain Lush's sound to aliens from another planet? Well, realistically, of course you wouldn't. You'd run away shouting "Aliens! Aliens!" ...