Garlands [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Import]

Cocteau Twins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 3, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1982
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: 4ad
• ASIN: B00004Y81C
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,549 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #44 in Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Ambient Pop
  • #59 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > General
  • #98 in Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Dream Pop

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The album is excellent, the remaster is crap, December 18, 2005

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Thor Maillet (Waltham, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garlands (Audio CD)

Please note that this is a comment of the REMASTERING job of this CD. The original always had a very dry, cold sound that fit the music very very well. I know that Guthrie is not a fan of his earlier albums, and on all 3 early records (this one, Head Over Heels, and Treasure) he seems to have run with the technology available to re-create instead of just simply remaster. The CD suffers because of this. Whereas the original Garlands was appropriately flat - this one sounds like the album was recorded in a tin can. I'm very glad I held onto my original import edition of this - which also is sadly out of print due to this monstrosity. (Two of the bonus tracks, first issued on a flexidisc, on the original import have been axed, and do not appear on anything else) ... Keep your old Capitol or (old) 4AD editions ... or get the vinyl. Just upsetting.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Underappreciated, August 11, 2005

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J. C. Sanders (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Garlands (Audio CD)

This may me the most underappreciated Twins release. It seems to exist in sharp contrast to their later sound, although it's dark, minimalist, industrial sounds seem to echo through "Head Over Heels", another great early Twins album. THis album stands on it's own as an art piece... and furthermore, this is the only LP with Bassist Will Heggie, who left the Twins to join another Grangemouth band, Lowlife. His bass playing alone is reason enough to own this album. "Blind DUmb Deaf" rocks!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars In Defense..., July 26, 2006

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z4zillah (Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Garlands (Audio CD)

I have been a passionate listener of Cocteau Twins for longer than seems possible, and until I looked up Amazon in order to replace my copy of Garlands (mine being rode hard and put up wet)I had no idea that this album was unpopular or considered to be a poor representation of the band's work. I am startled by these reviews; certainly Garlands is not, what? Milk & Kisses? But why should it be? Turgid and dissonant, dreamy and atmospheric, it is the perfect and neccesary foil to their later work.