release date: Nov. 7, 1983
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,34]
producer: Cocteau Twins, John Fryer
label: 4AD Records - nationality: Scotland, UK
Tracklist: 1. "Sugar Hiccup (12'' Version)" - 2. "From the Flagtstones" - 3. "Hitherto" - 4. "Because of Whirl-Jack"
4-track ep by Cocteau Twins following only two months after the album Head Over Heels (Oct. '83) marks a change of style. Yes, the best track "Sugar Hiccup" is taken from the most recent album but where it sounded misplaced on the album, it's in company of other dream pop-shaped compositions here. On "From the Flagstones" Elizabeth Fraser sounds like on This Mortail Coil's most memorable tune "Song to the Siren", which should be released a full year later. It's not all dream pop, however, as the last two compositions points more to the music of Siouxsie and the Banshees than to the future sound of Cocteau Twins.
