In November 1983, I had spent about 2 hours searching my favorite Record store, I pick up an album wrapped in yellow transparent cellophane, the artist unknown to me, the cover art was beautiful, I flipped the album over and read a note: Their sound takes us to Nowhere – a place out of time – a utopia. Loop’s work is based on repetition – completely immersing the listener in the moment – a road to oblivion – a loss of memory - blindness to the future. sensory deprivation – both ways can take you to a place outside of linear thought and language. Lullabies taking us back to the original love – the love of mother and child – these are imagined songs that come before language or grammar… There is often a sense of poignancy – an ache and feeling of loss in their songs – the loss of the (pre-birth) memory of maternal haven where there was no gap between desire and fulfillment? A time prior to the actual reality of need and wants…Ī mind can be overwhelmed by too much information or emptied by focusing on too little – sensory overload vs. Again you have a sense of boundaries dissolving – an escape to a place or world outside of language… This music is permeated with melancholy and awe – empty soundscapes – veils of sound. Their music deals with the loss of autonomy – a succumbing to desire, a slide into oblivion…Ī paradise lost – a lament – a wish to conjure the ‘ spirit of eden’ again in a world ‘turned upside down’. A song with most of its weight removed – just the remnants remaining – in some ways a song with its back broken. Like most of these bands their music is removed from strong riffs and power chords – dyslexic surges, swathes, precipices and detonations. "Slow" sounds as though their desires have put them in peril – ravished to the point of debility – the vampire as sexual allegory – the rush of blood away from the head - excess brings on pallor, sex makes you ill. I'm still not altogether sure who or what a spangle maker is, but I'm always looking for my spangle maker. And at 3:38, when the song released the remainder of it's full power, well, there are no words. It was the singular most beautiful thing I'd ever heard. And at 1:00 minute in, the first chorus, I nearly lost my mind. I love the lyrics to this song - they're so visual and kind of ambiguous they made my imagination run wild. By 10 seconds in, I knew I was holding gold. The very first Cocteau Twins record I ever bought on my own was The Spanglemaker 12". That didn't really fit into my "Ice Pulse" definition of the Cocteau Twins, so I knew I was onto something. I mean, to me, Garlands is a straight up goth record. "Ice Pulse" got me interested in the band (I was super into synths that year) and Garlands (which I adored) made me realize there is a LOT more to this band than I'd previously thought. By the time I heard this song, I'd already heard Garlands and the track "Ice Pulse".
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