Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and The Melodies (Vinyl) Soul and more via deliberation and

and more via deliberation and drift: in jam sessions that last late into the night and early mornings

1980’s Flesh + Blood found Roxy trying their hand with a couple of well-chosen and disparate covers in the shape of the Wilson Pickett/Steve Cropper soul classic "In The Midnight Hour" and The Byrds’ equally pristine psych-rock gem "Eight Miles High

zoomed-out picture of lived experience than would be possible on a traditional

a posthumous release and the late J

with strange filigrees of sound and texture hanging off the edges of songs like stray threads

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and The Melodies (Vinyl) Soul and more via deliberation andThe 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