Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2025-06-13 Hill's reenergized outlook is plainly

Hill's reenergized outlook is plainly evident in this stripped-down performance--it's basically just Hill and her unplugged guitar--as well as the highly spiritual nature of the material

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bursting with the wisdom and perspective accrued by the business of someone who has really lived and loved

Houck sings from a woozy

Fully ensconced in their G-Son studio

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2025-06-13 Hill's reenergized outlook is plainlyThe 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