Twinlights

EP by Cocteau Twins

Released

September 1995

Genre

Acoustic, voice-piano

Length

13:55

Label

Fontana - CT 3

Producer

Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins chronology

Snow
(1993)

Twinlights
(1995)

Otherness
(1995)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Twinlights is a 1995 EP by Cocteau Twins. It was released along with the EP Otherness as a teaser for the album Milk and Kisses. It is a mainly instrumental affair, with Allmusic referring to it as "being as close to an "unplugged" effort as the Twins ever got." The EP was originally released on CD as well as a 2x7" vinyl set.

The EP has four tracks, two of which were reimagined for Milk and Kisses ("Rilkean Heart" and "Half-Gifts"). "Pink Orange Red", which was released on the 1985 EP Tiny Dynamine, is a stripped down version of the original with a piano playing the melody and opening. "Golden-Vein" is the only track on the EP not to appear on any other release.

Elizabeth Fraser describes this EP as being about a man she fell in love with during the 1994 Four-Calendar Cafe tour. The mystery man has been speculated to be Jeff Buckley by Fraser's biographer, but she has never confirmed or denied this.^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Cocteau Twins; string arrangements by Thomas M. Hill.

"Rilkean Heart" - 2:22
"Golden-Vein" - 2:49
"Pink Orange Red" - 4:29
"Half-Gifts" - 4:15

Performers

Robin Guthrie
Elizabeth Fraser
Simon Raymonde
Phil Boyden - violin
Paul Costin - violin
Fiona Griffith - viola
Helen Thomas - cello

References

Cocteau Twins

Robin Guthrie Elizabeth Fraser Will Heggie Simon Raymonde

Studio albums	Garlands Head over Heels Treasure Victorialand Blue Bell Knoll Heaven or Las Vegas Four-Calendar Café Milk & Kisses

EPs	Lullabies Peppermint Pig Sunburst and Snowblind The Spangle Maker Aikea-Guinea Tiny Dynamine Echoes in a Shallow Bay Love's Easy Tears Snow Twinlights Otherness

Compilation albums	The Pink Opaque BBC Sessions Stars and Topsoil Lullabies to Violaine

Singles	"Iceblink Luck" "Heaven or Las Vegas" "Evangeline" "Tishbite" "Violaine"

Related articles	Discography Robin Guthrie discography This Mortal Coil Harold Budd The Moon and the Melodies Ivo Watts-Russell Beautiful Noise

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