release date: Oct. 31, 1983
format: cd
[album rate: 3 / 5] [2,98]
producer: Cocteau Twins, John Fryer
label: 4AD Records - nationality: Scotland, UK
Track highlights: 1. "When Mama Was Moth" - 3. "Sugar Hiccup" - 8. "Multifoiled"
2nd studio album by Cocteau Twins released on 4AD Records. The band is reduced to a duo consisting of the romantic couple of vocalist Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie playing guitar, bass and drum machine, and with this it has become more evident that they seek out a new broader and more harmony-based sound. The album may be the first to point to their unique sound of dream pop with Guthrie's ambient guitar and Fraser's indistinct vocal harmonies, and especially on "Sugar Hiccups", which is the finest composition here. Musically, they are on their way to find their form but the sound is, however, still very gloomy and somewhat muddy stuck in ethereal wave darkness linked to post-punk, and I don't find it hugely inspiring, and mostly just see it as background noise.
