CD Import

Garlands

Cocteau Twins

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Item Details

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Catalogue Number
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GAD211CD
Number of Discs
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1
Label
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4AD
Original Release Year
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1982
Format
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CD
Other
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Import

Product Description

Cocteau Twins: Elizabeth Fraser (vocals); Robin Guthrie (guitar); Will Heggie (bass).
Additional personnel: Gordon Sharp (vocals).
Though it's least like their later material and far more clearly grounded in rock music tropes, the debut Cocteau Twins album, GARLANDS (1982), contains most of the essentials that would eventually make them the darlings of the ethereal and Goth crowd. The album features four main elements--Will Heggie's understated and sinister bass lines, a pulsing drum machine which often provides the only real structure for the songs, Robin Guthrie's massively treated guitars which often sound like some sort of Doppler effect, slow-motion siren, and Elizabeth Fraser's eerie vocals and lyrics. Fraser assembles what appear to be nonsense syllables (though occasionally the odd word or two in English or Gaelic is decipherable) selected for their sound rather than their meaning, and sings them in a combination otherworldly warble and yodel. All of this is infinitely prettier to listen to than this description would suggest.
Highlights include the menacing, claustrophobic "But I'm Not," and the cavernous vocal and sustained guitar distortion of "Grail Overfloweth." Collectors should note that early versions of the CD contained six bonus tracks recorded for British radio.

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    Garlands

    ¥5,359 EUR Edition Import 20 Mar 2020

Track List   

  • 01. Blood Bitch
  • 02. Wax and Wane
  • 03. But I'm Not
  • 04. Blind Dumb Deaf
  • 05. Shallow Then Halo
  • 06. Hollow Men
  • 07. Garlands
  • 08. Grail Overfloweth

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ふつふつ と、色んな感情が湧いては過ぎて...

投稿日:2006/05/16 (火)

ふつふつ と、色んな感情が湧いては過ぎて行く。ヨーロッパ的と言うのか、神聖さと残酷さと美しさがある。子宮で唄うとか言われてました!そうとるのも有りでしょうけど、彼等の作品で一番過激で衝撃的と感じます。

musuka さん | 北海道 | 不明

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底無しの闇に堕ちていく感覚。でも何故か柔...

投稿日:2005/10/16 (日)

底無しの闇に堕ちていく感覚。でも何故か柔らかくて優しい。当時の私の様に胎内で荒廃した未来を待つしかない様な。暗いけど彼女の声が一筋の光を紡ぎ出している。

ray さん | 福岡県 | 不明

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今改めて聴くとダークななかに透明感がある...

投稿日:2004/07/28 (水)

今改めて聴くとダークななかに透明感があるのと改めて思い知らされた!

shin さん | 不明

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