";s:4:"text";s:3579:"BBC Sessions is an album of BBC studio recordings by the band Cocteau Twins released in 1999 by Bella Union in the UK and Rykodisc in the US. Listen free to Cocteau Twins – Live In Boston 1995 (Fifty-Fifty Clown, Calfskin Smack and more). They broke up in 1997 while recording their ninth album. Elizabeth Fraser was the vocalist and lyricist in Cocteau Twins. “Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde Shares and Talks About His First New Music in 20 Years”. Rockol.it. Her shy nature and diminutive stature belied her powerful, often towering voice. Much of the first disk was taken from a series of early 1980s Peel sessions. National Public Radio (USA). The Line of Best Fit. 13 tracks (51:36). “Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde and Richie Thomas of Dif Juz announce debut album as Lost Horizons”. A group whose distinctly ethereal and gossamer sound virtually defined the enigmatic image of the record label 4AD, Cocteau Twins were founded in Grangemouth, Scotland, in 1979. The album spanned the band's career from the early 1980s through the 1990s. BBC Radio 6. Cocteau Twins audio rarities, live recordings, official videos, live video performances, television appearances, and other odds and ends. Many have written about Cocteau Twins, either in short-form—the usual music journalism of 50- or 1,000-word missives that attempt to capture something approximating truth—or long-form.This website attempted the first comprehensive band history in the mid-1990s. Label: Not On Label (Cocteau Twins) - SM 8590 • Format: CD Album, Limited Edition, Unofficial Release • Country: UK • Genre: Rock • Style: Ethereal