From nnaficyListen to the vocals as texture, not lyrics. Fraser bends syllables into shape and sound, layered inside Guthrie’s shimmering guitars. Thirty-five years on, it still sounds like nothing else. Start with the title track, where everything lifts at once. Headphones recommended 🎧
- Fraser sings more intelligibly here than ever before, so does understanding her words deepen the album's spell or break it?
- Which song from this record would you play for a skeptic who dismisses Cocteau Twins as pretty background music?
- Frou-frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires closes things slowly, so how well does it work as the album's final word?
- Many fans call this the band's peak, so does it outshine their murkier earlier records for you?
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