COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - The Moon & The Melodies LP Techno who was a fan of

who was a fan of the band and who instantly decided to join them on hearing of their upcoming demise

a sharpened awareness in the hall emerges from all observing

Whether it's echo-laden pronouncements on our worst instincts for techno addiction (‘Digital Colony’) or odes to modernist artists Paul Nash (‘Marsh Personage’) each track is as desperate as it is restrained by the same conditions

winding in and out of tune to poke out towards the boundaries

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COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - The Moon & The Melodies LP Techno who was a fan ofThe 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