Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies Die Cut Sleeve with DL Sweet Hands 09

Sweet Hands 09

Another Beautiful Day

As such the record is in parts severe and beautiful

a crypto-hypnotic garage trance

who was also quarantined at home alongside his mixing studio

Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies Die Cut Sleeve with DL Sweet Hands 09The 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 signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take