Lullabies to Violaine, Vol. 2

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Customer reviews

review by: northants1841 date: 2009-04-01 rating:
Essential Listening
Essential listening, nothing less than five stars for this double CD of EP's. What would I give for a brand new Cocteau album...

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review by: coralsea1 date: 2006-04-29 rating:
Brilliant....Simply Brilliant
The Cocteau Twins were a complete one-off and thi is pure genius. Buy it while it is available....and at this price it has to be the steal of the century. Enjoy


review by: We're all Frankies' date: 2006-03-10 rating:
The Post 4AD years...
Issued last December 'Lullabies to Violaine' was a limited edition four-disc box-set taking in Cocteau Twins' single releases through their brilliant career. Now this material has been reissued in a two volume, two disc form which makes available their singles work alongside the reissues of the albums proper in remastered form a few years ago. pThe 27-tracks here take up Cocteau Twins story as they left 4AD after close to a decade and signed up to a major label. Many seemed to think they had climaxed with 1991's 'Heaven or Las Vegas' (probably true) and records such as 'Loveless', 'Just for a Day', 'Whirlpool' the work of Thieves (...needs to be reissued!) seemed to advance on these climes. pThis is a bit disingenuous - across these e.p.s' is some potent work, much of it superior to the studio albums released at the time. The in-demand 'Snow' single is included here - the covers of 'Winter Wonderland' and 'Frosty the Snowman' now alternative Xmas-standards. The acoustic reworkings on 'Twinlights' is interesting and an advance on the approach of the Raymonde-less 'Victorialand' LP. Likewise the 'Otherness' ep finds Mark Clifford recycling (remixing!) Twins works, taking in two recent songs alongside the older 'Feet Like Fins' (from 'Victorialand') the opening track from 'Heaven or Las Vegas'- 'Cherry-Coloured Funk.' Like the remixes on the recent Luke Haines box-set, they are very much of their time and probably ought to be considered alongside work by the Drum Club, One Dove, Orbital, Polygon Window and Seefeel.The two closing eps 'Tishbite' and 'Violaine' are excellent, particularly the track 'Alice' - which like Mazzy Star's 'Rhymes of an Hour' would be used to stunning effect in Bernardo Bertolucci's kleenex-fest 'Stealing Beauty.'pNot as vital as the initial volume, Vol. 2 completes the picture and has plenty worth discovering here - a welcome cd issue making it possible to hear most of Cocteau Twins output now...

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