Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and The Melodies (Vinyl) Charlotte Day Wilson at least her most concise

at least her most concise effort

almost tropically minded

just because an album isn’t “happy

Suckling The Mender

even when the sex'n'satanism seems a little silly

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and The Melodies (Vinyl) Charlotte Day Wilson at least her most conciseThe Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins catalogue unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signalled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take