Garlands

"While far from resembling the spectral loveliness that they would hone and master later on, it remains an equal parts majestic and enigmatic release - anomalous, yes, but fiercely so. On paper, Garlands probably shouldn't work, but that's precisely why it does. 35 years on, it's clear that it's within those tentative moments and duskier corners that Cocteau Twins were born".

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