Biography

Scotland's Cocteau Twins were one of the most distinctive bands to emerge within the splintering rock world of the 1980s. Led by producer, guitarist, and knob-twiddler Robin Guthrie and vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, the Twins explored a landscape of fuzzy atmospherics and mechanized drumbeats, skirting any traditional notion of lyrics in favor of nonsensical sounds and random Scottish phrases. As the band grew more confident, the music's rough edges smoothed out, leaving songs that, as one reviewer put it, sounded like the voice of God.

Top Tracks

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• Beatrix

• Blind Dumb Deaf

• Blood Bitch

• Blue Bell Knoll

• Bluebeard

• Calfskin Smack

• Carolyn's Fingers

• Cherry-coloured Funk

• Evangeline

• Feathers Oar Blades

• Feathers-oar-blade

• Feathers-oar-blades

• Five Ten Fiftyfold

• For Phoebe Still A Baby

• Fotzepolitic

• From The Flagstones

• Garlands

• Great Spangled Fritillary

• Heaven Or Las Vegas

• Hitherto

• Iceblink Luck

• In The Gold Dust Rush

• Ivo

• Lazy Calm

• Lorelei

• Love's Easy Tears

• Millimillenary

• Musette And Drums

• Oomingmak

• Ooze Out And Away, Onehow

• Pearly-dewdrops' Drops

• Peppermint Pig

• Pink Orange Red

• Ribbed And Veined

• Sea, Swallow Me

• Seekers Who Are Lovers

• She Will Destroy You

• Squeeze-wax

• Sugar Hiccup

• Summer-blink

• The Spangle Maker

• The Thinner The Air

• Those Eyes, That Mouth

• Violaine

• Wax And Wane

Discography

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• Heaven or Las Vegas

  4AD

  1990

• Head Over Heels/Sunburst and Snowblind

  4AD

  1988

• The Moon and the Melodies

  4AD

  1986