Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and The Melodies (Vinyl) Soul 1980’s Flesh + Blood found

1980’s Flesh + Blood found Roxy trying their hand with a couple of well-chosen and disparate covers in the shape of the Wilson Pickett/Steve Cropper soul classic "In The Midnight Hour" and The Byrds’ equally pristine psych-rock gem "Eight Miles High

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Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and The Melodies (Vinyl) Soul 1980’s Flesh + Blood foundThe 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 signalled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take