Victorialand [Original recording reissued]

Cocteau Twins | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 10, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000007R1O
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #210,844 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lazy Calm

2. Fluffy Tufts

3. Throughout the Dark Months of April and May

4. Whales Tails

5. Oomingmak

6. Little Spacey

7. Feet-Like Fins

8. How to Bring a Blush to the Snow

9. The Thinner the Air

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An album to sip brandy and curl up on a cold night..., December 3, 1999

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Steven K. de la Vaux (Atlanta, Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Victorialand (Audio CD)

A beautiful, chiefly acoustic release by the Cocteau Twins. The songs evoke the feeling of darkness, winter, and solitude. Elizabeth Fraser's vocal range on this album is amazing, especially on "Ooomingmak" and "The Thinner the Air." This album was considered to be one of the most influencial albums in the ambient movement, circa 1986.

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 10 Stars Out of 5, August 14, 2000

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MaddKhameleon (Singapore: The City of Sin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Victorialand (Audio CD)

I know nobody will care what I am about to say but I feel obliged to do so:This IS simply one of the most important album that ever came out of the 80's, and this is among the best albums from that band. I know there are other great albums from the greatest band on Earth, but this one is one of its kind. Well, am I overrating them? Maybe, but they have been iniquitously underrated by the 'Sophisticated New Music Critics' for ages. Not only did this album define the 4AD sound they created even further, actually casted a huge influence on the whole New Age Scene and the Ambient Scene. Yes, it is actually that good, Enya owes a lot to the Cocteau, so does a whole lot more of New Age artists and so-called-alternative artists such as Lush, even legends like My Bloody Valentine admitted that Cocteau Twins was one of their major influence.The whole album is a dreamscape, it is subtle, gentle, otherworldly... Whatever! I know this is how many people rave about them, i do not wish to use all the words which means 'etheral' to describe their music. It is just beautiful and this beauty is unparrelled in the 90's, not even by themselves, I am sad to say.(Although Otherness EP was half as good) Nobody else even came this close to the word 'beautiful'. Music of the God? I am not sure, but I am quite sure God will be very pleased with their music.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And miles to go before I sleep/And miles to go before I slee, November 12, 2002

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M. Chmielecki (Somersworth, NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Victorialand (Audio CD)

This album is made of snow and ice mountains. With the barest touch of guitar, tabla, saxophone and the winter-warm chill of Fraser's voice, Antarctica is revealed.

Ghostly, sensual beauty of blank spaces.