The Cocteau Twins are a spring band for me. It’s funny how certain bands and sounds remind people of certain times of the year. Unless the music is made specifically for a season (i.e. Christmas music), the music and season relationship is often to a person. My longtime pal, Dave Bellard introduced me to the Cocteau Twins thirty years ago, during our freshman year of college. During the spring of 1990, the Twins’ Blue Bell Knoll (1988), Love’s Easy Tears (1986), and The Pink Opaque (1986) were in heavy rotation for me, courtesy of the double cassette deck in my dorm room, and a 90-minute TDK.
Ironically, it was the next spring of 1991 when I purchased the latest Cocteau Twins album, Heaven or Las Vegas (1990) at Tower Records in Washington D.C. on a school sponsored art conference trip, further cementing the Cocteau Twins as a spring soundtrack, even to this day. Pack away the flannel sheets, open the windows, get outside…and enjoy the angelic sounds of Elisabeth Fraser and the Cocteau Twins.