Sunburst and Snowblind by Cocteau Twins

Sunburst and Snowblind is a four-track EP that Scottish band Cocteau Twins released on 4AD in November 1983. It carries "Sugar Hiccup" from the Head over Heels album alongside three other songs, and even the title is borrowed from that album, taken from the opening words of "When Mama Was Moth".

This is Robin Guthrie's guitars smeared into glowing, effects-soaked fog, and Elizabeth Fraser's soprano soaring through it. Oddly for this band, "Sugar Hiccup" and "From the Flagstones" have words you can actually make out. "From the Flagstones" and "Hitherto" were later gathered onto the 1986 compilation The Pink Opaque, the whole EP went into The Box Set in 1991, and some CD editions of Head Over Heels tack it on at the end. Every song here except "Because of Whirl-Jack" has been played live.

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