Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies 1/18/11 Not the Same 3

Not the Same 3

The influence of the club and a dancier focus

Vinyl format from 4Ad label

The Dream 4

Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies 1/18/11 Not the Same 3The 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