COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - The Moon & The Melodies LP Soul In December 2015 I moved

In December 2015 I moved with my family to the Scottish Borders

Also includes a rare and until now unreleased bonus track recorded at the same time as When the Sea Became a Giant

” which he wrote and performs live in the film at the end of an elaborately choreographed 20 minute steadicam shot

Baton Rouge sludge band Thou have released over a dozen LPs worth of music

the guitars are so weighed down with distortion that they struggle to march from one chord to the next

COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - The Moon & The Melodies LP Soul In December 2015 I movedThe 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