“Cherry Coloured-Funk” by Cocteau Twins

"Cherry-Coloured Funk" throws open Heaven or Las Vegas, the Cocteau Twins' sixth album, released on 4AD in 1990, and it sets the mood in seconds. Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde wrote and recorded it at September Sound in London during the album sessions and produced it themselves, and it has that Scottish trio's knack for sounding like sunlight through tinted glass: blurred, sweet and slightly unreal. Pitchfork later picked out its melting first guitar chords as the doorway into the bright imagery of the whole record.

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