Cocteau Twins - Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years [4CD] (CD Box Set)

Treasure Hiding: The Fontana Years [4CD]
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There was perhaps a sense, after a while, that the world was taking The Cocteau Twins for granted. Late '€˜80s reviews had routinely described them as The Voice of God, yet 4AD, concerned that we'd get tired of appreciating the rarefied genius which shimmered in front of our noses, would keep reminding us that they were truly special. The irony was that The Cocteaus were themselves evolving, morphing, reconstituting and taking on new shapes. This wasn'€™t widely registered at the time. It can be now, as The Fontana Years demonstrates a musical marvel which still makes your ears feel like they'€™re sucking citrus fruits after years of licking ashtrays, while the rings of Saturn crash-land in your front room.

This four-disc set brings together the two albums the band recorded for Fontana along with B-Sides, EP€™s, Radio One sessions and the odd rarity. The set was mastered at Abbey Road from the original tapes and approved by Robin Guthrie.

- 4CD
Tracklist:

CD 1:
1. Know Who You Are at Every Age
2. Evangeline
3. Bluebeard
4. Theft, And Wandering Around Lost
5. Oil of Angels
6. Squeeze-Wax
7. My Truth
8. Essence
9. Summerhead
10. Pur

CD 2:
1. Violaine
2. Serpentskirt
3. Tishbite
4. Half-Gifts
5. Calfskin Smack
6. Rilkean Heart
7. Ups
8. Eperdu
9. Treasure Hiding
10. Seekers Who Are Lovers

CD 3:
1. Mud and Dark - Evangeline
2. Summer-blink - Evangeline
3. Winter Wonderland - Snow EP
4. Frosty the Snowman - Snow EP
5. Three Swept - Bluebeard Single
6. Ice-Pulse - Bluebeard Single
7. Bluebeard (Acoustic Version) - Bluebeard Single
8. Rilkean Heart - Twinlights
9. Golden-Vein - Twinlights
10. Pink Orange Red - Twinlights
11. Half-Gifts - Twinlights
12. Feet Like Fins - Otherness
13. Seekers Who Are Lovers - Otherness
14. Violaine - Otherness
15. Cherry Coloured Funk - Otherness (Seefeel Remix)
16. Tishbite - Tishbite
17. Primitive Heart - Tishbite
18. Flock of Soul - Tishbite
19. Round - Tishbite
20. An Elan - Tishbite

CD 4:
1. Smile - Violaine
2. Tranquil Eye - Violaine
3. Circling Girl - Violaine
4. Alice - Violaine
5. Circling Girl - Volume Track
6. Touch Upon Touch - Volume Track
7. Serpentskirt [Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996]
8. Golden-Vein [Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996]
9. Half-Gifts [Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996]
10. Seekers Who Are Lovers [Mark Radcliffe Session, 12 March 1996]
11. Calfskin Smack [Robert Elms Session, 10 April 1996]
12. Fifty-Fifty Clown [Robert Elms Session, 10 April 1996]
13. Violaine [Robert Elms Session, 10 April 1996]

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