COCTEAU TWINS LYRICS

MILK & KISSES

Violaine  Serpentskirt  Tishbite   Half-Gifts  Calfskin Smack  Rilkean Heart  Ups  Eperdu  Treasure Hiding  Seekers Who Are Lovers

ALBUM CREDITS :

Simon Raymonde : Composer
Mitsuo Tate : Engineer
Spiros Politis : Photography
Des Ward : Engineer
Lincoln Fong :Engineer
Elizabeth Fraser: Composer
Robin Guthrie: Composer
Cocteau Twins :Producer Engineer Main Performer

ALBUM REVIEW :

Throughout the '80s, Cocteau twins created some of the most beautiful and innovative music of the decade. Liz Fraser's uncanny, gossamer voice and Guthrie's shimmery guitar work both garnered acclaim and inspired bands. Milk and Kisses finds the band in a comfortable rut; they've created, and now perfected, a style of music so distinctive that there seems to be little recent creative growth. The result is a beautiful, lush, but somewhat dated and unengaging sounding album that tends to wash over the listener without making any real impact. It is, however, everything that a twin's album promises; hypnotic, dreamy, awash in ethereal voices, and delicate, liquid guitars. "Tishbite" in particular delivers an accessible dream pop sound that sounds nice while it's playing but fails to have anything really memorable about it, a problem that plagues most of Milk and Kisses. "Half-Gifts," "Rilkean Heart," and "Treasure Hiding" have an airy, otherwordly prettiness to them -- but that's about it. Necessary for Twin's diehards and potentially interesting to those that have never heard the band before, Milk and Kisses says nothing, but says it beautifully.
 

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