COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - The Moon & The Melodies LP Techno Rowland’s bassist brother Harry and

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COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - The Moon & The Melodies LP Techno Rowland’s bassist brother Harry andThe 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 signalled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path they"d never take