Garlands
by Cocteau Twins
- Type: Album
- Released: 10 July 1982
- Label: 4AD
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 35:24
- Community rating: 3.66/5 from 15 ratings
Artists on this release: Elizabeth Fraser, Denis Blackham, Will Heggie, Robin Guthrie
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The Cocteau Twins' debut album presents a skeletal, distinctly darker iteration of the ethereal sound they would later perfect. Built around Will Heggie's pulsing basslines and a rigid drum machine, 'Garlands' features Robin Guthrie's heavily distorted guitar washes and Elizabeth Fraser's early, mysterious vocal stylings. It is a sombre, intensely cold, and atmospheric landmark of gothic post-punk.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, reverb-heavy, dreamy, distorted, bassy, guitars, female-vocals, droning, rhythmic
Tracklist
- Blood Bitch (4:34)
- Wax And Wane (4:04)
- But I'm Not (2:45)
- Blind Dumb Deaf (3:46)
- Shallow Then Halo (5:16)
- The Hollow Men (5:02)
- Garlands (4:32)
- Grail Overfloweth (5:22)
Credits
- Cocteau Twins - primary artist, producer [production], written-by [all titles written by]
- 23 Envelope - artwork
- Will Heggie - bass
- Eric Radcliffe - engineer [engineered by]
- John Fryer - engineer [engineered by]
- Robin Guthrie - guitar
- Bilbo - lacquer cut by
- Ivo Watts-Russell - producer [production]
- Elizabeth Fraser - voice
- Denis Blackham - mastering