Word: cocteau
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...COCTEAU TWINS 10-CD Collection
Soporific, incomprehensible vocals and basictunelessness are not to everyone's taste. Thiswould appear to be bad news for the Cocteau Twins,as they have just released a ten-CD collection ofexactly that sort of music as a boxed...
...Cocteau Twins are oddly named, consideringthat the groups is actually a threesome, andScottish at that. Elizabeth Fraser, the vocalist,actually started the group, and was soon joined bybassist Simon Raymond (who left after the releaseof the first album, Garlands) and guitaristRobin Guthrie...
...Cocteau Twins' music has evolveddramatically since their rather tentative firstalbum. The expressionless lyrics and dull backingwhich had irked many early listeners weregradually polished away, leaving the kind ofdelicate cacophony which makes the Cocteau Twinsso easily recognizable...
...most people, the Cocteau Twins take somegetting used to. The flowery, psychedelic tones ofFraser's voice, and the moan of the instrumentalbacking are an acquired taste. (Some may say it'sa taste not worth acquiring.) In any case, itseems that only a very earnest Cocteau Twins fanwould want to buy a ten-CD collection of theirmusic. If taken in large doses, you'll find thatone so-called song will begin to sound very muchlike all the rest.wagonesque a worthwhile purchase...