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Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly  I never really got the Cocteau Twins, then or now but I totally understand Lightening Bolt. |
I like the swirling, ethereal wailing thing with the Cocteaus - but only really the early, gothy stuff. After then, it got a bit twee, to my ears anyway.
As for 'Lightning Bolt', yeah, gut level churning gets me every time.
Just listening to 'James Ferraro', his concept album about The Sims based on corporate jingles. It's a bit annoying really, but there's a good bit involving something about the virtual avatars of Richard Branson and Gordon Ramsay. What these crappily British figures mean to an avant garde Californian uber-hipster, I have no idea. He used to do some really good stuff with 'Skaters', most of which was on tiny CD-R labels and impossible to get hold of now, although there's some on YouTube which I'd put up if I knew how to embed. It's really freaked out noise based on wordless vocal drones - the kind of sounds that drift into your mind's ear at three o'clock in the morning after a bit too much mandrake.