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Roy Montgomery and Martha Skye Murphy: Nebular

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 17, 2026
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Roy Montgomery and Martha Skye Murphy

Tags AD 93, cocteau twins, David Grubbs, Loren Connors, Martha Skye Murphy, Roy Montgomery

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Dan Guidance: Freequencies Two

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date July 22, 2026
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Dan Guidance - Freequencies Two

Tags cocteau twins, Dan Guidance, Drum & Bass, Freequencies, jim morrison, Portal Recordings, The Doors

Album Reviews

Grive: Tales of Uncertainty

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 21, 2024
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Grive (photo: Philippe Mazzoni)

Tags Agnès Gayraud, Autrenoir, cocteau twins, Dennis Lehane, Extreme Precautions, FOUDRE !, Grive, La Féline, Low, Mondkopf, Oiseaux-Tempête, Paul Régimbeau, Talitres

Features Interviews

Glass State: In Conversation with Sweet Williams’ Thomas House

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 12, 2023
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Thomas House (photo: Gabriela Soto)

Album Reviews

fhae: sombre thorax

fhae (photo: Amber Ramsay)

Tags 4000 Records, cocteau twins, Efrim Menuck, Elizabeth Fraser, Ellena Ramsay, fhae, Grouper, Julianna Barwick, Lichen Slow, Malcolm Middleton

Features Film Television

Angelo Badalamenti: Absolute Sound and Vision

Post author By Sean Beardmore
Post date December 21, 2022
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Angelo Badalamenti

Tags Andy Badale, Angelo Badalamenti, Blue Velvet, Bobby Vinton, cocteau twins, Danny Boyle, David Lynch, Irving Berlin, Isabella Rossellini, Jane Campion, Jean Pierre-Jeunet, Joel Schumacher, Julee Cruise, Nancy Wilson, Nicholas Cage, Nina Simone, Paul Schrader, Twin Peaks

Features Interviews

Polexia! Interview: “We actually have an eerily similar taste in music”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date September 9, 2022
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Polexia! (photo credit: Claire Welles)

Tags cocteau twins, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Godflesh, Jezebel Halewood-Legas, Johanna Connolly, Justin Broadrick, Krzystof Penderecki, Kylie Minouge, Lene lovich, Lizzie Mercier Descloux, Nina Hagen and Malaria, Outsider Art, Polexia!, SPINE, Susan Janet Ballion

Features Interviews

Landing Interview: “We’re all modest and unassuming people”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 1, 2022
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Landing (photo provided by the artist)

Features Interviews

A Golden Sky: In Conversation with Damon & Naomi – Part 2

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 13, 2021
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Damon & Naomi (photo credit: Anabel Vazquex Rodriquez)

Tags 20/20/20, cocteau twins, Damon & Naomi, Damon Krukowski, Galaxie 500, George Harrison, Jarvis Cocker, John Cage, Michio Kurihara, Naomi Yang, nirvana, Pulp, Richard Youngs, Suzanne Sassic

Album Reviews

Deafheaven: Infinite Granite – “a band at their most self-effacing”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 20, 2021
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Deafheaven (photo credit: Robin Laananen)

Tags American Football, Chris Johnson, cocteau twins, Daniel Tracy, Deafheaven, George Clarke, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Kerry McCoy, M83, Mike Kinsella, Sargent House, Shiv Mehra, The Armed, the cure, Touché Amore, Wolf Alice

Albums Features

The Greatest Gift: Best EPs Ever Made

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date June 9, 2021
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Features Interviews

MJ Guider Interview: “I didn’t set out with a specific inspiration for making the record other than my standard compulsion”

MJ Guider (photo credit: Craig Mulcahy)

Tags Bowery Electric, cocteau twins, Julianna Barwick, Kranky, Less Bells, Melissa Guion, MJ Guider

Albums

A Buyers Guide to Cocteau Twins

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date August 6, 2020
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Cocteau Twins created a world of their own making and soundtracked it with some of the most perfect music ever recorded. Banjo looks into their essential releases and reports back

Tags banshees, cocteau twins, dreampop, liz fraser, ride, robin guthrie, shoegaze, simon raymonde