Four-Calendar Cafe
| Cocteau Twins
Four-Calendar Cafe
Four-Calendar Caf
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Cocteau Twins' first release following their exodus from the 4AD stable, Four-Calendar Café is also, tellingly, their most earthbound effort.
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Post Punk
The album was a departure in sound with it’s more pop oriented melodies, continuing the change begun on the band’s previous record Heaven or Las Vegas, but with even more intelligible lyrics from Elizabeth Fraser’s vocals this time around.
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Eric Roosendaal
From a purely musical point of view Four-Calendar Café is probably not their best album ever, but most of the songs are still very enjoyable, and they gain extra depth by the hidden meanings of the lyrics.
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Music Street Journal
Four-Calendar Café was the first release after the band’s split with 4AD and has a poppier influence than previous works, but is a next logical step from the exceptional Heaven Or Las Vegas album.
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Hybrid Magazine
Four-Calendar Café shows a maturing band that is still firmly rooted in their beginnings.
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Clash Music
‘Four-Calendar Café’ serves as a form of catharsis, then, as Elizabeth Fraser’s lyrics on the album are amongst the most discernible of the group’s career, and often hint at discord and disillusionment.
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Leonard's Lair
'Four Calendar Café' now seems like an ideal introduction for those a bit put off by Frazer's unique vocal techniques and although it's a polite compromise after 'Heaven Or Las Vegas', their contemporaries would still kill to sound this ethereal.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
Despite all the faults this album has, it still works. It still retains that Cocteau Twins magic, it floats and draws you in for repeated listens.
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Only Solitaire
If this ain't a self-parody, it's gotta be burnout. Too bad.
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The L.A. Times
(1994) Fraser, 30, whose vocals have usually consisted as much of exotic sounds as actual words, wrote "proper lyrics" and sang them in a relatively straightforward fashion for "Four-Calendar Cafe," a haunting album that's more direct emotionally than most of the band's previous collections.
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Exclaim!
Guthrie was trying to clean himself up, and in the process, they made an entirely placid album that didn't quite offer the same dizzying euphoria as its predecessors. They seemed uninspired and wanting to play it safe.
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Mecca Lecca
Ethereal. beauty. love. hope. flowing.
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