Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse. Then regretted after a year or so and got a different pressing (probably UK) but it wasn’t the same.

Depending on where you live, the time it may take for your exchanged product to reach you, may vary. A promotional-only single of “Heaven or Las Vegas” was released, which featured an edit of the song (the version featured in the video), backed with “Dials. I have to confess this is the only Cocteau Twins album i have in my vast labyrinth of sounds and in my humble opinion it is my fave album of any moment. Heaven or Las Vegas followed in 1990, and the release was also via 4AD in the UK and Capitol in the US. I'm starting to think there are no good vinyl releases of this album, nothing beats the 24bit lossless files you can get online.

They were formed in Grangemouth by Robin Guthrie (guitars, drum machine) and Will Heggie (bass), adding Elizabeth Fraser (vocals) in 1981 and replacing Heggie with multi-instrumentalist Simon Raymonde in 1983. Elizabeth Frazer pioneered the glossolalia technique to create a vast layered sonic template around the sounds of words where the words themselves seem to almost morph into each other, thus inventing her own language. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

At least there aren't many pops or distracting surface noise issues, but I'd have rather had those than have a brilliant album be reduced to a shell of what it could have been. Heaven or Las Vegas was released in 1990 and went on to become their most commercially successful release, reaching number seven in the UK album charts. I've been a CT fan since the early 80's and have been so looking forward to their back-catalouge being re-mastered and re-released.with Fraser’s famously incoherent vocals at their most intelligible, it’s the product of hours of obsessive studio craft. but in the meantime, I shall wear my headphones and just be carried along in a swirling marvellous mass of magical music. Related Artists - Drowning Craze, Elizabeth Fraser, Faye Wong, John Grant, Lost Horizons, Lowlife, Mandalay, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde, Sun's Signature, The Czars, Violet Indiana.

The reissue only scratches the surface of the sound involved in this pressing- the reissue lacks any of the passion and depth of this lp; it just sits there where this pressing surrounds you with their sound.Deciding to scale back the overly pretty sound on Blue Bell Knoll while experimenting with more accessibility the Twins ended up creating their best album since Treasure. With tracks as majestic as the title track, ‘Cherry-Coloured Funk’ and ‘Iceblink Luck’, who’s to argue?