The immediate follow-up to Treasure didn't match the effortless heights of that album, but still came darn close throughout, providing another brief, affecting precis of the trio at its best.
The title track became another well-deserved Twins standard, a deceptively simple bass/guitar/drum combination driving away at its core, while Fraser sings beautifully over it all, matched by a swirl of Guthrie's production touches (piano, mock choir, and so forth).
"Kookaburra" follows squarely in the path of faster Cocteaus tracks as "Because of Whirl-Jack," though here Fraser's vocals are more sweet and less dramatically piercing.
Guthrie's guitar takes center stage here, starting the track with echoing swirls leading into the main riff.
"Quisquose" puts piano up front as main accompaniment for one of Fraser's more adventurous vocals, mixing a high main lyric with a more free form performance set against it, calling to mind the slightly similar contrast in vocal takes on "Lorelei." The instrumental "Rococo" ends the EP with style, a quiet bass/percussion opening leading into one of Guthrie's trademark fusions of feedback, volume, and heavily-produced beauty.
Raymonde's bass stands out strongly throughout as well, a fine combination.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aikea-GuineaRobin Guthrie, Cocteau Twins | Cocteau Twins | Play | 03:56 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | KookaburraCocteau Twins | Cocteau Twins | Play | 03:19 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | QuisquoseCocteau Twins | Cocteau Twins | Play | 04:10 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | RococoCocteau Twins | Cocteau Twins | Play | 03:07 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 14 mins | 33 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cocteau Twins | Composer, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 2 | Robin Guthrie | Composer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |