Cocteau Twins - Garlands

Cocteau Twins' "Garlands" was released in 1982 on 4AD. It's a dreamy post-punk journey through the ethereal world of Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Will Heggie. Eschewing a drummer, the rhythms are entirely drum machine creations, giving the tracks a dispassionate backbone on which swathes of reverb drenched guitars and Fraser's wails are placed. The artwork is quite representative of the sound of the album, a fever dream in industrial architecture with a ghostly atmosphere.

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