“Lorelei” by Cocteau Twins

"Lorelei" floats out of Treasure, the third Cocteau Twins album, which 4AD released in November 1984, and it's the work of the trio that would define the band from then on: Elizabeth Fraser singing, Robin Guthrie on guitar and Simon Raymonde on bass. All three share the writing credit, the band produced it themselves, and Drostan John Madden and John Turner engineered.

Treasure is where they fully gave themselves over to the ethereal sound that became their calling card, and "Lorelei" carried that sound somewhere nobody would have bet on: it turned into a minor dance hit in the mid-'80s. The band thought the album underdeveloped, but it stands among their most acclaimed records.

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