Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2022-05-06 Real Gone Music is reissuing

Real Gone Music is reissuing their first four albums on vinyl

A 1993 re-release of the song in the United Kingdom

the album sold over 1

and a brand new mix of ‘Portobello Belle (Live)’

The Alchemist

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2022-05-06 Real Gone Music is reissuingThe Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins catalogue unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take