The Moon & The Melodies

The 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 they’d never take again. Now, almost forty years after it was first released, it’s being reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself.

Tracks

1~1~Sea, Swallow Me
1~2~Memory Gongs
1~3~Why Do You Love Me?
1~4~Eyes Are Mosaics
1~5~She Will Destroy You
1~6~The Ghost Has No Home
1~7~Bloody And Blunt
1~8~Ooze Out And Away, Onehow

Details

Catalogue Number: 4AD0642LP
Format: Vinyl
Artist: Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd
Release Date: 23 August 2024
Genre: Alternative
Label: 4AD
Distributor: Inertia Music