Treasure hiding : the Fontana years

"Really, the only thing that still casts a pall over these latter-day treasures is Fraser's regret about persisting with the band after her breakup with Guthrie, attributing her reluctance to continue her music career on the stresses of the Cocteaus' final years. "I wasn't strong enough to stop it," she later said. Nevertheless, this music should not continue to be deemed evidence of decline after greater glories. Instead, the glories they achieved here may be more heroic given the troubles that surrounded them".

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"Collecting the sometimes-dismissed output of these pioneers between their masterpiece and their breakup, this box set sheds welcome light on how relevant many of these songs remain".

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