- 1. Supermodel-turned-songbird Karen Elson Serves This Season’s Softest, Slinkiest Styles
- (Music)
- ... her Nashville neighborhood, listening to the stuff she grew up on—Nirvana, the Hives, Cocteau Twins, Sonic Youth. “I had this really extended downtime, and it was the first time since I was a teenager ...
- Created on 03 November 2022
- 2. Cocteau Twin's Vocalist Elizabeth Fraser is Back With a New Band, Sun's Signature and It's Perf
- (Music)
- SUN’S SIGNATURE Self-titled (Partisan Records) The latest release from dream-pop and trip-hop legends Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins) and Damon Reece (Lupine Howl, Massive Attack) may have been ...
- Created on 28 June 2022
- 3. Allie X's "Cape God" Welcomes Us Into Her Meditative Dreamworld: BUST Intervi
- (Music)
- ... always love Tori Amos and PJ Harvey. Elizabeth Fraser from Cocteau Twins. Nowadays, I love Angel Olsen. I love Mitski. My influences are so vast. Then there's one more that that I would love to mention, ...
- Created on 21 February 2020
- 4. Twen's "Awestruck" Is An Epic Dream Pop Alb
- (Music)
- ... the words,” Fitzsimmons has said in interviews, explaining her penchant for effects. The rubber-band vocals of ’90s indie icons Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins) and Harriet Wheeler (the Sundays) saturate ...
- Created on 20 September 2019
- 5. 18 New Albums To Revamp Your Listening Habits (With Playlist!)
- (Music)
- ... a passing phase. Their cover of Cocteau Twins’ Athol Brose is perfection, but one has to wonder how they ever interpreted Liz Frasier’s lyrics! Moody, French, and fun, I Could Be Happy is the perfect chic ...
- Created on 08 February 2017
- 6. BUST's Top 29 Albums Of 201
- (Music)
- ... pairs sorrowful lyrics with cheerful vocals, making sadness seem like just a passing phase. Their cover of Cocteau Twins’ Athol Brose is perfection, but one has to wonder how they ever interpreted Liz ...
- Created on 19 December 2016
- 7. 'Ghostbusters,' 'Lady Dynamite,' And Winona Ryder: BUST's 10 Best Bets for June And J
- (Entertainment)
- We've got you covered for June and July with the hottest (literally) beginning of summer entertainment. Keep up with us from Cocteau Twins-inspired music video to a gender-neutral fashion documentary, ...
- Created on 01 June 2016
- 8. 10 Genderqueer Artists That Are Smashing The Binary
- (Music)
- ... before “Cha-Ching.” Clashing Cocteau Twins with Creation Records, 2015’s Eudamonia from Dais Records plays like an tropical goth dream. Worriers Formerly of The Measures, Lauren Denitzo heads ...
- Created on 26 February 2016
- 9. Warpaint Channels Cult Movie 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' In This Dreamy Photo Shoo
- (Arts)
- ... coming, but the self-named Warpaint (out January 20) is worth the wait. The record is a gothic, psychedelic gem, dark and dreamy with hints of Cocteau Twins and the Cranes—13 tracks you can sink into and ...
- Created on 28 January 2016
- 10. Simon Raymonde's Awesome New Collaboration With Stephanie Dose
- (Music)
- When Simon Raymonde’s band Cocteau Twins split in 1997, he went on to found and record for his own label, Bella Union. His latest musical incarnation, with help from vocalist Stephanie Dosen, is Snowbird, ...
- Created on 09 April 2014
- 11. Fall Preview: Music
- (Music)
- ... for early-’90s dream pop from artists like Mazzy Star and the Cocteau Twins. But her latest album should put any fears of Bush One-era plagiarism to rest. Full of more of the same distorted, acid-trippy ...
- Created on 24 September 2012
- 12. Grimes @ NYC's Bowery Ballroom ...
- (Music)
- ... all of my goth friends who flocked to Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, and Depeche Mode shows. (I totally wanna hang out with this lady and raid her music collection by the way.) Boucher stood stage left ...
- Created on 26 July 2011
- 13. Brendan & Robin - Alt Rock Dynamic Duo
- (Music)
- In the ’80 and ‘90s Alternative Rock Gods Dead Can Dance and Cocteau Twins were two of the UK’s hottest exports. Both bands split in the mid ‘90s leaving seminal musical legacies. The male leaders of these ...
- Created on 17 May 2011
- 14. Band to Watch: Twin Sister
- (Music)
- ... Ecstasy and it was clear to see that they were having a good time. Their music, often reminiscent of Cocteau Twins and Air, creates a soundscape that is dreamy, but still down-to-earth enough to have ...
- Created on 21 April 2010
- 15. Carousel
- (Music)
- ... to school. The Cocteau Twins guitarist/sound designer is one of the most crucial figures in shoegaze, and the wafty, watery instrumentals on Carousel flaunt that cred with wild abandon. Superslow jams ...
- Created on 30 November 2009
- 16. Rites
- (Music)
- ... squeal of Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser (especially on the soothing track “We Belong”). Bassist Andy MacLeod gets in on the action with pulsing dance jam “Fire Night,” conquering a sultry Malcolm McLaren–esque ...
- Created on 21 August 2009
- 17. Blood From a Stone
- (Music)
- ... Blood From a Stone, to her personal collection of ’80s indie-rock albums, citing Sonic Youth, Cocteau Twins, the Pixies, and PJ Harvey as influences in this percussion-heavy foray. The unusual sounds on ...
- Created on 19 August 2009
- 18. S. Darko Has Lost Her Faith in Sparkle Motion
- (General)
- I feel somewhat confident in saying that most of you reading this know someone -- or are someone -- who has watched Donnie Darko over and over again. Maybe as your go-to late night stoner flick, or ...
- Created on 30 June 2009
- 19. Does You Inspire You
- (Music)
- ... rare charm that transcends any self-aware genre or calculated scene. On Does You Inspire You the trio patches together an exquisite fantasy-pop/new wave/folk pastiche recalling Cocteau Twins but deviate ...
- Created on 12 May 2009
