Cocteau Twins – Four-Calendar Café (CD) Jon Hopkins While contemporary influences need not

While contemporary influences need not be denied

who praised DJ Shadow's approach to sampling and the beats he created from samples

and Donald Bailey on drums

which puts off hardcore jazzers but hooks a big slice of everybody else

but it’s feeling sensual and attracted to things that I enjoy

Cocteau Twins – Four-Calendar Café (CD) Jon Hopkins While contemporary influences need notThere was clearly every reason why 1993s Four Calendar Caf could should have been a disappointment at best, a disaster at worst for the Cocteau Twins first major label album, follow up to a masterpiece, band barely on speaking terms, add cocaine, await calamity. But against these considerable odds, Four Calendar Caf is a marvel. For all the upheaval attending its creation, it sounds a pretty natural successor to Heaven Or Las Vegas, the Cocteaus