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Lullabies To Violaine Vol. 1

Three or four songs at a time is exactly the right serving size for the Scottish trio Cocteau Twins' gauzy, lacy abstractions, so four discs is arguably way too much. But these two sets compile all sixteen mostly-three-or-four-song EPs and singles they released, from 1982's Lullabies (sprawling...

2006 RS: 3of 5 Stars

Four-Calendar Cafe

1993

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Punk's embrace of inspired amateurism has been responsible for many musical surprises, but none so delightful as the Cocteau Twins. This Scots combo --Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser, and, eventually, Simon Raymonde --doesn't write songs so much as shape sounds into some semblance of a verse-chorus construction, after which Fraser appends her otherworldly melodies and inscrutable lyrics. It's not ...

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