Head over Heels.
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Head over Heels.
Head over Heels is the second studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Cocteau Twins. The album was released in October 1983 by 4AD, and was their first album as a duo of Elizabeth Fraserand Robin Guthrie. It featured the band's signature sound of "Guthrie s lush guitars under Fraser s mostly wordless vocals" and is considered an archetype of early ethereal wave music. -Wikipedia
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The Line of Best Fit
Although some of the goth-ier aspects of their previous style were still apparent, the beginnings of the sound we love them for now are first developedTrea on this album.
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The Quietus
To listen to Head Over Heels from the vantage point of 30 years is to rediscover an album that at once is a bold step forward in establishing a unique identity in British independent music as well as building a bridge to a place of odd and strange beauty.
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All Music
The album introduces a variety of different shadings and approaches to the incipient Cocteaus sound, pointing the band towards the exultant, elegant beauty of later releases.
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Analog Planet
Head Over Heels released in 1983 became a much imitated template for "wave", "shoe gazing" and other musical genres that followed in its wake.
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The Audiophile Man
[These] beautifully melodic but also avant rhythms soaked into your soul and sounded like it could only be created by an orchestra manned by characters from the X-Files.
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MUSO Scribe
The group’s signature sonic elements were in place, and Cocteau Twins would continue to mine similar musical territory with varying degrees of success on subsequent albums.
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Evil Sponge
This album must have been shocking when it was released: a breath of something new and unique. And yet, there were deeper levels of experimentation to plumb. But first the band had to find a new member.
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Only Solitaire
You gotta realize - nothing really sounded even remotely like this, not ever before. That deserves recognition.
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FREQ
An artsy abattoir of panoramic pyramid atmospherically tinkering.
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Record Collector Mag
That second album finds them at the tantalising point where they’d started to transcend their influences (the gothic post punk of The Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and co) and were showing signs of a strange, beatific sound all of their own.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
The Cocteau Twins were getting better . . . There's little doubt about that.
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Mecca Lecca
Haunted. Moody.
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Free City Sounds
Answered prayers from yr Goddess bleeding over elastic bass-lines, guitar screeches and scratches, and the loud boom of drums; dream pop over post-punk resulting in a deeply unique, influential and immersive experience and a top 5 Cocteau Twins album.
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Records in My Life
The interplay between Guthrie’s dark complexity and Fraser’s so-damn-close-to-ethereal vocals shining through is fantastic. It's like some kind of punch drunk daydream.
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