Identifying with many songs’ message of close relationship with the land and principles of stewardship

an enclosed share of night sky hides a heavy load of industrial debris underwater

distinctly French direction that is both melancholy and anthemic

The album opens with the startlingly oppressive

COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - The Moon & The Melodies LP Prog Identifying with many songs’ messageThe Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins" catalogue unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signalled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path they"d never take