Love's Easy Tears

by Cocteau Twins

Love's Easy Tears cover art

Following their highly successful acoustic-leaning album, this dense four-track collection marks a return to heavily layered, aggressive synthesizer and guitar textures. Elizabeth Fraser’s vocal acrobatics are famously indecipherable here, utilized entirely as a sweeping, melodic instrument. The wall-of-sound production heavily foreshadowed the emerging shoegaze movement that would dominate the UK indie scene shortly after.

Genres

  • Dream Pop
  • Ethereal Wave

Tracklist

  1. Love's Easy Tears
  2. Those Eyes, That Mouth
  3. Sigh's Smell of Farewell
  4. Orange Appled