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| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/garlands-mw0000189422 |title=''Garlands'' – Cocteau Twins : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic |last=Raggett |first=Ned |work=[[Allmusic|AllMusic]] |accessdate=9 September 2012}}</ref>
| rev1score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/garlands-mw0000189422 |title=''Garlands'' – Cocteau Twins : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic |last=Raggett |first=Ned |work=[[Allmusic|AllMusic]] |accessdate=9 September 2012}}</ref>
| rev = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev2 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| revscore = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=David |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian David |date=2004 |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |publisher=Simon and Schuster |page=174 |url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA174&dq=%22cocteau+twins%22+%22garlands%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zCh9VM3rBYuE8gXgzIDYCw&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22cocteau%20twins%22%20%22garlands%22&f=false |accessdate=2 December 2014}}</ref>
| rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=David |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian David |date=2004 |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |publisher=Simon and Schuster |page=174 |url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&pg=PA174&dq=%22cocteau+twins%22+%22garlands%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zCh9VM3rBYuE8gXgzIDYCw&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22cocteau%20twins%22%20%22garlands%22&f=false |accessdate=2 December 2014}}</ref>

| rev3 = [[Martin C. Strong]]
| rev3 = [[Martin C. Strong]]
| rev3score = 7/10<ref>{{cite journal |magazine=The Essential Rock Discography – Volume 1 |date=2006 |page=222}}</ref>
| rev3score = 7/10<ref>{{cite journal |magazine=The Essential Rock Discography – Volume 1 |date=2006 |page=222}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]''
| rev4score = favourable<ref>{{cite journal |last=Fitzgerald |first=Helen |date=1982 |magazine=[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]}}</ref>
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In its contemporary review of the album, [[AllMusic]] was generally critical, writing "''Garlands'' falters due to something the band generally avoided in the future – overt repetition. [...] As a debut effort, though, ''Garlands'' makes its own curious mark, preparing the band for greater heights."<ref name="AllMusic"/> ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' wrote that the album "[sounds] like [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] with echo and smeared mascara".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hermes |first=Will |date=September 2003 |title=Reissues |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GsC7vOTAWQAC&pg=PA111&dq=%22cocteau+twins%22+%22garlands%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zCh9VM3rBYuE8gXgzIDYCw&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22cocteau%20twins%22%20%22garlands%22&f=false |accessdate=2 December 2014}}</ref>
In its contemporary review of the album, [[AllMusic]] was generally critical, writing "''Garlands'' falters due to something the band generally avoided in the future – overt repetition. [...] As a debut effort, though, ''Garlands'' makes its own curious mark, preparing the band for greater heights."<ref name="AllMusic"/> ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' wrote that the album "[sounds] like [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] with echo and smeared mascara".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hermes |first=Will |date=September 2003 |title=Reissues |magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]] |url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=GsC7vOTAWQAC&pg=PA111&dq=%22cocteau+twins%22+%22garlands%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zCh9VM3rBYuE8gXgzIDYCw&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22cocteau%20twins%22%20%22garlands%22&f=false |accessdate=2 December 2014}}</ref>


"The fact of the matter is that the album is bloody good. A fluid frieze of wispy images made all the more haunting by Elizabeth's distilled vocal maturity, fluctuating from a brittle fragility to a voluble dexterity with full range and power." (Helen Fitzgerald, Sounds Magazine, 1982)
Helen Fitzgerald in ''[[Sounds (magaine)|Sounds]]'' wrote, "The fact of the matter is that the album is bloody good. A fluid frieze of wispy images made all the more haunting by Elizabeth's distilled vocal maturity, fluctuating from a brittle fragility to a voluble dexterity with full range and power."<ref name="Sounds"/>


== Musical style ==
== Musical style ==

Revision as of 03:09, 2 December 2014

For other uses, see Garland (disambiguation).
Untitled

Garlands is the debut studio album by Scottish dream pop band Cocteau Twins. It was released June 1982, through record label 4AD.

Background

Garlands is the only album with original bassist Will Heggie. Gordon Sharp of Cindytalk provided backup vocals on "Dear Heart", "Hearsay Please", and "Hazel".

Release

Garlands was released in June 1992.

The original British cassette release included four additional tracks from a John Peel radio session. The original British, Brazilian and Canadian CD releases featured the album, the Peel session and two other tracks that were recorded for an unreleased single, which was to have been the band's first release. The four Peel Session recordings were later released as BBC Sessions in 1999.

From the band's website: "In the end, Garlands was one of the most successful independent recordings of 1982, and peaked in the UK Independent Top Five. In addition to this, the band had received avid support from the BBC Radio 1's John Peel—a significant figure in the early development of Britain's independent music culture in the 1980s".[citation needed]

A remastered version of "Blind Dumb Deaf" is available on the 2000 compilation Stars and Topsoil. A version of "Hazel" appears on the band's Peppermint Pig EP, released in 1983. A remixed version of "Wax and Wane" was included on the 1985 compilation The Pink Opaque.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Rolling Stone[2]
Martin C. Strong7/10[3]
Soundsfavourable[4]

In its contemporary review of the album, AllMusic was generally critical, writing "Garlands falters due to something the band generally avoided in the future – overt repetition. [...] As a debut effort, though, Garlands makes its own curious mark, preparing the band for greater heights."[1] Spin wrote that the album "[sounds] like Siouxsie and the Banshees with echo and smeared mascara".[5]

Helen Fitzgerald in Sounds wrote, "The fact of the matter is that the album is bloody good. A fluid frieze of wispy images made all the more haunting by Elizabeth's distilled vocal maturity, fluctuating from a brittle fragility to a voluble dexterity with full range and power."[6]

Musical style

Billboard described the album as "dark post-punk".[7] The album's sound was described in The Rough Guide to Rock as "a blend of ominous pulsating bass, stark TR808 drums, cyclical guitar and great screeching arcs of reverberating feedback, over which Liz alternated dry, brittle utterings with full-power vocal gymnastics."[8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Cocteau Twins (Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Will Heggie)

No.TitleLength
1."Blood Bitch"4:34
2."Wax and Wane"4:04
3."But I'm Not"2:45
4."Blind Dumb Deaf"3:46
5."Shallow Then Halo" (printed as "Shallow Then Hallo" [sic] on the sleeve)5:16
6."The Hollow Men"5:02
7."Garlands"4:32
8."Grail Overfloweth"5:22
Bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
9."Dear Heart" 
10."Hazel" 
11."Hearsay Please" 
12."Blind Dumb Deaf" 
13."Speak No Evil" 
14."Perhaps Some Other Aeon" 

Personnel

Technical
  • Ivo Watts-Russell – production
  • "Eric" – engineering at Blackwing Studios
  • "John" – engineering at Blackwing Studios
  • 23 Envelope – sleeve design, photography and art direction

References

  1. ^ a b Raggett, Ned. "Garlands – Cocteau Twins : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  2. ^ Brackett, David; Hoard, Christian David, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon and Schuster. p. 174. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  3. ^ The Essential Rock Discography – Volume 1: 222. 2006. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ Fitzgerald, Helen (1982). Sounds. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ Hermes, Will (September 2003). "Reissues". Spin. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sounds was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Bambarger, Bradley (6 April 1996). "Radio Climate Could Boost Capitol's Cocteau Twins". Billboard: 14. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
  8. ^ Hall, Link; Canadine, Ian (2003). Buckley, Peter (ed.). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. p. 212. Retrieved 2 December 2014.
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