The Wednesday Night Awesome: Cocteau Twins “Iceblink Luck” (1990)
In the early 80s, the Cocteau Twins invented an ethereal pop hybrid with a throw-out-the-rulebook post-punk ethos and a gift for swirling gothic ambience: all ripply underwater basslines, and the nonsensical (and often wordless) but lovely (in a brittle sort of way) vocals of lead singer Elisabeth Fraser; sounds that were paired with appropriately evocative-bordering-on-gibberish song titles (“Pearly Dewdrops’ Drops”) and album cover art (by Vaughan Oliver/23 Envelope, whose work is as synonymous with […]