- ambient, dream pop
- 37 min
- 8 tracks
- Relativity Records
The Moon and the Melodies is a collaborative studio album by Scottish dream pop band Cocteau Twins and American minimalist composer Harold Budd. It was released 10 November 1986 by 4AD. The name "Cocteau Twins" did not appear on the release, which instead credited the band's three members and Budd individually.
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Character
Character-led, grave, contemplative and intimate.
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
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Tracks
- 1Sea, Swallow Me3:09
- 2Memory Gongs7:25
- 3Why Do You Love Me?4:51
- 4Eyes Are Mosaics4:09
- 5She Will Destroy You4:13
- 6The Ghost Has No Home7:33
- 7Bloody and Blunt2:12
- 8Ooze Out and Away, Onehow3:38
8 tracks, 37 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Relativity Records
- Released
- 1986
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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