The song was originally called Peep-Bo but the band made it a tribute to the label head and their mentor:. The sound of the band changed significantly with him, and he had a major influence on the material becoming more dreamy and textured. The song titles on Treasure are all pseudo-mythological single words. An important element on the album is the sound Robin Guthrie was able to produce from the EMU Drumulator drum machine.
Guthrie installed the Rock Drums sound chip to get those bombastic drum sounds. Programming the machine was a tedious effort, and if the drum track was a not a trivial pattern repeating itself throughout the song but rather an elaborate sequence as in many songs on Treasure, you had your work cut out for you.
Almost all songs on the album have that distinct drum machine sound, Persephone is a good example:. The album got the band an increased exposure in the media and bigger turnout in live performances. The album remained for 8 weeks in the national album charts and peaked at 29 on November 18 The 1 position that week was held by Wham! Quite the range in music tastes by British record buyers. On the indie chart they fared much better and peaked at 2.
The band, however, did not appreciate the media attention that ensued. Not because of the record, but because of the vibe at the time, when we were pushed into all that kind of arty-farty pre-Raphaellite bullshit.
And so I was just really ashamed of that record. In a blunt move at a time when music videos were a must for chart success, the band released no singles and no official videos to accompany the album. It has a quality that draws you into the music and takes you into dreamy landscapes.
We close this review with another dreamy highlight from the album, Pandora. It is easy to see where many artists that later came to be categorized as dream pop or shoegaze took their influence from.
Categories: Album. Tagged as: 80s , Ambient , Pop. Amazing what a low opinion the band have for this album. For me, one of the most hauntingly beautiful records ever made. Email Address. Success for them came to the fore with their release Heaven Or Las Vegas , being their last album for 4AD before moving onto the major label Capitol. The single was also popular on American college radio and so 4AD sold some distribution rights to the American Relativity Records who would joint release The Pink Opaque - the compilation that features this single - two years later across the pond.
Garlands is a historically interesting album, showing Cocteau Twins more involved with the Scottish post-punk scene at the time, collaborating with Gordon Sharp of Cindytalk during their early live performances. Collaborations do not always happen with ease, even if the end results sound as if the artists involved were well suited to each other. Robin Guthrie decided that Harold Budd would be a good person to work with on the Cocteau Twins album which would be released during the same year as and be a companion to Victorialand.
The end result of the combination of their singular approaches is an album categorisable more as ambient new age than post punk, with Cocteau Twins sounding now as if experiencing a collective dip in energy.
Writers like John Lennon. Writers that just kind of made up their own portmanteaux that caught on and people still use them. They don't mean anything, though, that's the thing. You know all the transcendent sounds. It's all sound all the way through.
Her process was in fact deceptively painstaking, with Fraser taking words from foreign language books and wrote them out in columns, having "had loads of these lists around the house.
She wrote out the lyrics for me which is a revelation given how she distorts and contorts those lyrics especially during that period. To her large fanbase in East Asia, Wong often spoke regularly about the major influence that Cocteau Twins had on her sound - particularly her vocals - from onwards. We liked her in that Wong Kar-Wai film Chunking Express and thought it might be a fun thing to do, as her voice seemed to be in a similar range and style to Elizabeth's.
We never worked with her directly in the studio; it was all done through interpreters and she recorded her parts in Hong Kong and Beijing. However, the band were not entirely pleased with the outcome. The band had since moved to London and left bassist Will Higgie behind. And almost never before had Fraser just sort of stood there and sang. Michael Stipe could mumble and be haled, and other guys made careers of bad poetry inspired by Burroughsian cut-ups.
Perhaps because she was a woman, fans sold it short as divine inspiration, while foes dismissed it as some girlie bullshit. Are you my friend? Further steps in either direction might have been fruitful, and the latter path might have even restored some critical acclaim. And then they split, probably for good. But Cocteau Twins did more.
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