Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd - The Moon and the Melodies [LP] Five Finger Death Punch UPC: 617669421574

UPC: 617669421574

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the album reveals it's considerable charms gradually - the initially impenetrable seven- minute splurge of opener of The Birmingham School of Business School gives way to the Top 40 commercialism of Free Range

Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd - The Moon and the Melodies [LP] Five Finger Death Punch UPC: 617669421574The 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