Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2025-06-13 After the first set's Dark

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Fully ensconced in their G-Son studio

Hill's reenergized outlook is plainly evident in this stripped-down performance--it's basically just Hill and her unplugged guitar--as well as the highly spiritual nature of the material

Mikky Ekko) with 2016 Grammy winner for Producer of the Year Jeff Bhasker serving as the album's executive producer

with additional production contributed by Jamie xx and Jay Versace

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2025-06-13 After the first set's DarkThe 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 theyd never take