Echoes in a Shallow Bay

by Cocteau Twins

Echoes in a Shallow Bay cover art
  • Type: EP
  • Released: 29 November 1985
  • Label: 4AD
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 16:09
  • Community rating: 3.86/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released as the inseparable twin companion to the 'Tiny Dynamine' EP, this project continues the trio's expansive, effects-driven studio experiments. The dense, shimmering guitar loops provided by Robin Guthrie create a profoundly disorienting, cavernous atmosphere beneath Elizabeth Fraser's heavily delayed, wordless vocalizations. It beautifully highlights the band's transition into the towering walls of sound that would soon heavily influence the shoegaze movement.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, reverb-heavy, shimmering, female-vocals, experimental

Tracklist

  1. Great Spangled Fritillary (4:02)
  2. Melonella (4:01)
  3. Pale Clouded White (5:01)
  4. Eggs and Their Shells (3:04)

Credits

  • Elizabeth Fraser - performer [uncredited]
  • Robin Guthrie - performer [uncredited]
  • Simon Raymonde - performer [uncredited]
  • 23 Envelope - sleeve

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