false heroes

She characterises this notion in the album’s brutalist bookends

there is the warbling synthie-sounds of the first NIN-album and the same drop in the back vocals

distinctly French direction that is both melancholy and anthemic

die ursprüngliche Entwurfsideen reanimiert und verstärkt

COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - The Moon & The Melodies LP Prog false heroesThe 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