The Cocteau Twins have announced vinyl reissues of their second and third albums Head Over Heels and Treasure. Previously, 4AD had released reissues of Blue Bell Knoll, Heaven Or Las Vegas, Tiny ...

When the Cocteau Twins released their debut album Garlands in 1982, the band were dismissed in some quarters as a mere Siouxsie & The Banshees clone. They weren’t – far from it – but it’s an ...

1984 release led the way for countless bands who’d be labelled shoegaze and dream-pop – but trio’s motivation was to find their own direction ...

Over their final five years, Cocteau Twins released some of the bravest, most enthralling music of their career. So why didn’t it seem so at the time? One virtue of Treasure Hiding: The Fontana ...

Think of Cocteau Twins. Their label 4AD will inevitably be high on the list of markers coming to mind. Whatever they were like as people, mysterious, oblique, shadowy and other similar adjectives were ...

Cocteau Twins have announced they are reissuing their debut album Garlands (1982) and fourth LP Victorialand (1986) on vinyl. Both of the reissues arrive March 20 and will feature remastered audio ...

Two of the Cocteau Twins’ albums are to be reissued on vinyl in March via 4AD. As part of the label’s ongoing series of reissues, which has already seen the group’s albums Blue Bell Knoll, Heaven or ...

Cocteau Twins have announced details of a new 4-CD boxset devoted to their years on the Fontana Label.. Treasure Hiding brings together the two albums that Cocteau Twins recorded for Fontana, Four ...

Treasure was new bassist Simon Raymonde’s first album with Cocteau Twins. The opaque one-word song titles – archaic names such as “Lorelei”, “Beatrix”, “Persephone” and so on – confirmed what had been ...