Cocteau Twins - Garlands (Black Vinyl)

Cocteau Twins - Garlands (Black Vinyl)Garlands was the Cocteau Twins' debut album, released in the early autumn of 1982. It was the only album they made with original bassist Will Heggie. Describing it ashaunting,spellbound,diaphanous, and discerning afrosting of sweetness, the critics wore out their adjectives; this was rock music just but it was conjured in the unlikeliest environment from the strangest of material.

” jangling and swaying with the Nashville guitar in the foreground

Dark Developments

electronics

rock-oriented version of Panda Bear or Grouper's output

The music is ragged

Written and recorded around a relentless tour schedule

offering our lives and deaths to sustain existence

it’s less interested in pile-driving and more willing to dwell in liminal spaces

This notoriety was of eventual benefit to Berman

embracing new methods

their evolving sound a reflection of the journey undertaken by songwriter Blair Howerton on this vividly rendered collection of songs

When Sacred Bones first began their Mort Garson reissue project in 2019 with a proper reissue of Plantasia