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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 gothic menace made fluffy by Elisabeth Fraser's breathy singing-in-tongues) to 1996's Violaine (brighter-toned and more synth-heavy, but not all that dissimilar). Highlight: 1984's "The Spangle Maker," which sounds like angry seraphs arguing about the decor in heaven. Weirdest moment: a totally earnest, Cocteau-ized "Frosty the Snowman."
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Track List
- Feathers-Oar-Blades
- Alas Dies Laughing
- It's All But An Ark Lark
- Peppermint Pig (7" version)
- Laughlines
- Hazel
- Sugar Hiccup (12" version)
- From The Flagstones
- Hitherto
- Because Of Whirl-Jack
- The Spangle Maker
- Pearly-Dewdrops-Drops (Alternate Version)
- Pepper-Tree
- Aikea-Guinea (Alternate Version)
- Kookaburra
- Quisquose
- Rococo
- Pink Orange Red
- Ribbed And Veined
- Plain Tiger
- Sultitan Itan
- Great Spangled Fritillary
- Melonella
- Pale Clouded White
- Eggs And Their Shells
- Love's Easy Tears
- Those Eyes, That Mouth
- Sigh's Smell Of Farewell
- Orange Appled
- Iceblink Luck
- Mizake The Mizan
- Watchlar
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