Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" The National "Rome" which centered around their irrepressible

which centered around their irrepressible and mysterious Robot personas

It started to feel like a catalogue of personal growth

'Never Miss A Beat' and 'Hole In My Soul'

By the time the album came out

AB worked on Selena's vocals on these recordings and created the music from scratch offering new and fresh

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" The National "Rome" which centered around their irrepressibleThe 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 signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take