Love’s Easy Tears by Cocteau Twins

Love's Easy Tears came out on 4AD in September 1986, a 12-inch EP from Cocteau Twins, the Scottish trio of Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde, arriving in the same year as their Victorialand album. It was their eighth EP and, as it turned out, the last one they'd make for 4AD, and the last of any kind until Snow in 1993.

It's dream pop at its most luxuriant. Guthrie's guitars smear and shimmer into a warm fog, Raymonde fills out the bottom end, and Fraser sings in that soaring soprano, her words melting into pure sound so you never quite catch what she's saying and never much mind. "Those Eyes, That Mouth" floats like a cathedral seen through rain. A later CD reissue tacked on a fourth track, "Orange Appled", and the American vinyl shuffled the running order.

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