Apologies it's been a few weeks since we've had some proper updates here at Castles in Space. A punishing new job and a few family related trips to Cumbria and Southampton over the last few weekends haven't left much time for blog action.
I hope this lovely EP from Cocteau Twins goes some small distance to making up for my absence though. "Twinlights" seemed a ever so slightly anti climactic to me at the time of its release, but the intervening years and perhaps my current state of general exhaustion have conspired to make this wonderfully low key little thing sound towering and majestic in a way that has surprised me enormously. Perhaps its also the fact that after a run of fantastic Cocteaus's releases, it was easy to take them for granted. There is nothing I would like better than to hear some new stuff from them RIGHT NOW, however. Although this seems like the unlikeliest thing since the rumoured Smiths reunion. Oh well. At least we'll always have this wonderful, fragile little thing.
Adapted from Wikipedia:
"Twinlights is the 1995 EP by the Cocteau Twins. It was released along with the EP "Otherness" as a teaser for the album Milk and Kisses. Allmusic referred to it as "being as close to an "unplugged" effort as the Twins ever got." The EP was originally released on CD as well as a double vinyl 7".
"The EP has four tracks, two of which were re-imagined for Milk and Kisses ("Rilkean Heart" and "Half-Gifts"). "Pink Orange Red", which was released on the 1985 ep "Tiny Dynamine", is a stripped down version of the original with a piano playing the melody and opening. "Golden-Vein" is the only track on the EP not to appear on any other release.
Elizabeth Fraser describes this EP as being about a man she fell in love with during the 1994 Four-Calendar Cafe tour. The mystery man has been speculated to be Jeff Buckley by Fraser's biographer but she has never confirmed or denied this, although the song "Rilkean Heart" seems likely to be a homage to Jeff Buckley who was a lifelong lover of Rainer Maria Rilke's work.
"Otherness" will appear here soon.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Cocteau Twins - Twinlights
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