The album opens with the startlingly oppressive

Recorded on the final night of their '98 tour in support of the eponymous LP

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

false heroes

there is the warbling synthie-sounds of the first NIN-album and the same drop in the back vocals

COCTEAU TWINS & HAROLD BUDD - The Moon & The Melodies LP Prog The album opens with theThe 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