Treasure.
| Cocteau Twins
Treasure.
Treasure is the third studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Cocteau Twins. It was released on 1 November 1984 by 4AD. With this album, the band settled on what would, from then on, be their primary lineup: vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie and bass guitarist Simon Raymonde. This new lineup also coincided with the development of the ethereal sound associated with the band's music. -Wikipedia
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All Music
Treasure lives up to its title and then some as a thorough and complete triumph.
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BBC Music
Treasure was where the Cocteau Twins first got it 100 percent right.
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The Line of Best Fit
That leap from tentative beginnings to striding alchemists of sound in such a short amount of time hasn’t been replicated by any band since. It was a gift from another world, and the great thing was, it kept giving. .
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Sputnik Music
Treasure lives up to it’s title by being an incredibly precious piece of art.
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Post Punk
The album has a wintry, almost crystalline sound, like the shimmering lace skirt on the cover, or ice after a snowstorm.
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Music Aficionado
It is easy to see where many artists that later came to be categorized as dream pop or shoegaze took their influence from.
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Only Solitaire
I am tremendously moved by this music.
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Muso Scribe
Treasure features a leap forward in terms of melodic pop sensibility.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
The music consistently rises to the occasion provided by the vocals. It's some occasion.
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Evil Sponge
It is a stunning album for its challengingness. I think that, a full 18.5 years after it's release, this album still stands up.
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The Arts Desk
Treasure made the leap into channelling something other: an interior world. Indeed, at live shows around this time Fraser looked as if she was unaware where she was.
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Off the Tracks
First time hearing Treasure the third Cocteau Twins album – and it’s dream worlds have been the soundtrack to my last few weeks…playing it over and again. As I will be from here on in…
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FREQ
Few records stay with you, but this one was destined to stick around for the long haul, almost from first hearing.
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Record Collector Mag
With Treasure came bassist Simon Raymonde and the flourishing of the balmy, sensual and spellbuilding noise that would come to define them. It’s the sort of album it’s easy to fall for, even more so when reissued so faithfully.
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Audio Stream
I tried to remember which Cocteau Twins album was most momentous but all of the early releases fit the bill. So I give you Treasure from 1984 in the hopes that you'll some find some otherworldly pleasure in hearing it again or for the first time.
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The Hack Skeptic's View
“Treasure” is the point at which The Cocteau Twins found their collective identity, and although they would create considerably more inviting songs later in their career, it sets the foundations and further spreads their beguiling musical mystery.
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Blurbomat
I worked for years to try to write something that would come close to that sound where the bass swoops down and the guitar does the big sustained chord, reverb at full warp speed, beautifully distorted in space. I never have.
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The Thin Air
Elizabeth Fraser reaches deep within herself and creates a new language, a violent, ethereal, passionate, and otherworldly noise that is without precedent.
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