pushing dense against sparse

Recorded on the final night of their '98 tour in support of the eponymous LP

die ursprüngliche Entwurfsideen reanimiert und verstärkt

The album opens with the startlingly oppressive

you know the story: J Mascis

COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - The Moon & The Melodies LP Prog pushing dense against sparseThe 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 they"d never take