The Moon and the Melodies

Description

On 23 August, almost forty years after it was initially released, ‘The Moon and the Melodies’ by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself. ‘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 signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path they’d never take again.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Sea, Swallow Me – Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
2. Memory Gongs – Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
3. Why Do You Love Me? – Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
4. Eyes Are Mosaics – Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
5. She Will Destroy You – Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
6. The Ghost Has No Home – Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
7. Bloody and Blunt – Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd
8. Ooze Out and Away, Onehow – Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd