Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and the Melodies LP xx1990 torch songs

torch songs

tremendous risks are taken

as you can tell

and banjo work from MARC GARTMAN

and mixed entirely by Bachman

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and the Melodies LP xx1990 torch songsThe 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 theyd never take