Twinlights Music Cd

Cocteau Twins - Twinlights

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Twinlights      Artist : Cocteau Twins      List Price : $10.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1995-09-26      Studio : Capitol      Label : Capitol      Avg. Customer Rating : (11 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Twinlights      The Best They Have Ever Written      Rating:      Before Milk and Kisses was released, the Cocteau Twins released an EP called Twinlights. Usually a listener is treated to maybe a song or two from the forthcoming CD as well as songs that didn't make it onto the CD. This wasn't the case with Twinlights. The two songs on this EP which later showed up on Milk and Kisses had much different arrangements. The other two songs from albums past were also revamped. I view this as a stand-alone work of art in their discography. At first listen, I was shocked at how stripped down their sound was on this EP. The Twins usually employ quite a bit of production and layers to their music which causes the dreaming/swirling effect a listener experiences when a Twins song unfolds. Here on a stripped down, quasi-live set of songs, the Twins still do the same thing without all the overdubbing and layered production. This indeed is a testament to their strength as artists and songwriters. The arrangements on this EP are breathtaking. They play and feel like torchsongs. What a brilliant move for them to make. I was expecting Milk and Kisses to sound much like this EP which it didn't. While I thought Milk and Kisses was a great album, I have to admit that I was very intrigued by the soul-piercing intimacy they showed on Twinlights. Liz has never been this raw and exposed, and beautifully so. I thought perhaps they would experiment a little more with this stipped down version of themselves but these songs were to be some of the last they would write together. Of all the music they have ever written, this EP stands out to me as their most intriguing and surprising, and probably their best work.     Customer Reviews for Twinlights Cd      lingers in the ear      Rating:      This is really quite lovely...the brevity of an EP with the lasting pleasure of a full album. Editorial Reviews for Twinlights Audio Cd      Amazon.com      Fans of the Cocteau Twins are an intensely loyal lot, and they know that the Scottish trio has often done its finest work on EPs, so Twinlights should be well-recieved. The four songs continue the shift toward more discernable vocals begun with Heaven or Las Vegas and Four-Calendar Café, but the instrumentation is much sparser than the usual lush Cocteaus creations. This gentle, delicate offering promises a new direction that moves the band further toward the best of the ambient/New Age genres. --Jim DeRogatis