Cocteau Twins - Milk & KissesThis re issue of the Cocteau Twins 1996 album faithfully replicates the original 1996 Fontana Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 140g vinyl. Cocteau Twins vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie, and bassist Simon Raymonde formed in Grangemouth, Scotland in the late 70s. The brainchild of Guthrie and original bassist Will Heggie, by 1981 they had added Fraser and the following year signed to 4AD, one of the most illustrious

all are member of the collective La Novià

Reel-to reel-loops of Afghan music compete with the found sound overlays of voices recorded at the queue of the pharmacy and drum machines borrowed from Spanish heroes

The Bats of the 21st century somehow manage to be more intimate and urgent

Sleep On Dream On

or The Incredible String Band

Miles Seaton Cooper

as well as Dave Cerminara

Says Jack Jones: “The album and the book is ‘Swansea To Hornsey’ as it should have been

with every aspect of her new work finding bold ways to express itself as it rips through twelve restless and relentless new tracks

and Wadada Leo Smith

Occasional Rain puts the era’s bigger names (Traffic

the swimming pool of Sexy Beast