Cocteau Twins
Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years
ume / fontana
This 4-CD set brings together the two albums the band recorded for Fontana along with B-Sides, EP s, Radio One sessions & the odd rarity.
There was perhaps a sense, after a while, that the world was taking The Cocteau Twins for granted. Late Eighties reviews had routinely described them as The Voice of God, yet 4AD, concerned that we’d get tired of appreciating the rarefied genius that shimmered in front of our noses, would keep reminding us that they were truly special. The irony was that The Cocteaus were themselves evolving, morphing, reconstituting & taking on new shapes. This wasn‘t widely registered at the time. It can be now, as The Fontana Years demonstrates a musical marvel which still makes your ears feel like they’re sucking citrus fruits after years of licking ashtrays, while the rings of Saturn crash-land in your front room.
Tracklist
- Know Who You Are at Every Age
- Evangeline
- Bluebeard
- Theft, And Wandering Around Lost
- Oil of Angels
- Squeeze-Wax
- My Truth
- Essence
- Summerhead
- Pur
- Violaine
- Serpentskirt
- tishbite
- Half-Gifts
- Calfskin Smack
- Rilkean Heart
- Ups
- Eperdu
- Treasure Hiding
- Seekers Who Are Lovers
- Mud and Dark - Evangeline
- Summer-blink - Evangeline
- Winter Wonderland - Snow EP
- Frosty the Snowman - Snow EP
- Three Swept - Bluebeard Single
- Ice-Pulse - Bluebeard Single
- Bluebeard (Acoustic Version) - Bluebeard Single
- Rilkean Heart - Twinlights
- Golden-Vein - Twinlights
- Pink Orange Red - Twinlights
- Half-Gifts - Twinlights
- Feet Like Fins - Otherness
- Seekers Who Are Lovers - Otherness
- Violaine - Otherness
- Cherry Coloured Funk - Otherness (Seefeel Remix)
- Tishbite - Tishbite
- Primitive Heart - Tishbite
- Flock of Soul - Tishbite
- Round - Tishbite
- An Elan - Tishbite
- Smile - Violaine
- Tranquil Eye - Violaine
- Circling Girl - Violaine
- Alice - Violaine
- Circling Girl - Volume Track
- Touch Upon Touch - Volume Track
- Serpentskirt - Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996
- Golden-Vein - Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996
- Half-Gifts - Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996
- Seekers Who Are Lovers - Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996
- Calfskin Smack - Robert Elms Session, 10 April 1996
- Fifty-Fifty Clown - Robert Elms Session, 10 April