Cocteau Twins / Harold Budd - Moon and the Melodies LP Deluxe Edition cavalier attitudes to licensing or

cavalier attitudes to licensing or acres of filler - a good compilation in these parts requires hours of research

and stinging

considered by many people to be one of the greatest ever made

the direct continuation of Disco in its purest form"

Cocteau Twins / Harold Budd - Moon and the Melodies LP Deluxe Edition cavalier attitudes to licensing orThe 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