Cocteau Twins-Head Over Heels/Sunburst EP 180g2LP (009)

BACK IN STOCK. disc 1 When Mama Was Moth Five Ten Fiftyfold Sugar Hiccup In Our Angelhood Glass Candle Grenades In The Gold Dust Rush The Tinderbox (of a heart) Multifoiled My Love Paramour Musette And Drums. disc 2 Sugar Hiccup (12inch Ext mix) From The Flagstones Hitherto Because Of Whirl-Jack. * Remastered from the original analogue tapes for this vinyl pressing * Special 2 disc edition pressed on 180g VINYL, this is a LIMITED EDITION of 2000 copies. * Sunburst and Snowblind EP Disc 2 is pressed in LILAC VINYL * This Limited Edition features band new artwork with a gatefold sleeve in heavyweight board and newly designed inner bags. * No 1 in the UK Independent Album Charts in 1983. * Head Over Heels, the Cocteau Twins’ second full-length recording, is often cited by the band as well as many enthusiasts as being among their true favorites. Along with its companion EP, Sunburst and Snowblind, included here as a bonus disc, Head Over Heels fairly established the trademark “Cocteau” sound, and both met with generally positive responses in the music media and achieved number one spots on the UK Independent charts. Although over time most people would come to expect this sort of freshness from the Cocteau Twins, Head Over Heels is the result of much improvisation and experimentation, with Robin developing his own unique bass style. This musical exploration is evident with such diverse songs as “Multifoiled,” with its jazz and rock-a-billy influences, and the punk and new wave edges of “In Our Angelhood” and “Because of Whirl-Jack.” Other songs, such as the sweeping “Sugar Hiccup” and the romantic “From the Flagstones” exhibit an ingenuity uniquely their own. The anthemic “Musette and Drums” is perhaps one of the most emotionally charged Cocteau Twins songs ever and, in a way, started a Cocteau Twins tradition of finishing albums off with such tracks (“Donimo”; “Ooze Out and Away, Onehow”; “Ella Megalast Burls Forever”; “Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires”; “Pur”; “Seekers Who Are Lovers”). One UK music journalist referred to Head Over Heels as a “whirligig of sound” or “scorpion cocktail”, and the descriptions are rather appropriate.