COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - THE MOON AND THE MELODIES (LP) BOX SETS "With its name indicative of

"With its name indicative of the music's boundary-testing diversity and Southwestern inspiration

buttressed by the nimble fingered bottom end of Sir Tim Hellman the Brave and the shred-heaven fret frying of John Dwyer

Budd brought delicate

Tres Hombres

and its R&B-inspired electronica feels appropriately grief-stricken

COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - THE MOON AND THE MELODIES (LP) BOX SETS "With its name indicative ofBLACK VINYL LP. "The Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins catalogue unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path