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Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas (Full Album)

Cocteau Twins -  Pandora

Cut The With The Cake Knife was recorded by Rose McDowall in 1988/89 following the break up of her group Strawberry Switchblade. Produced with the aid of several musicians in several studios, the album features songs written for the fabled second Strawberry Switchblade album. More importantly perhaps it showcases the honest, direct and life-affirming songs of one of the greatest unsung songwriters of the modern pop era at a tumultuous time in her career.

Tibet opens the set and could be one of the best pop songs you’ve never heard. The innate sadness of the songs’ content – the loss of a friendship, impending sorrow – is heightened to heart-melting level by McDowall’s pop nous and melodic sensibility. Choruses and hooks are everywhere on Cake Knife, from the outsider take on stadium 80s pop in Wings Of Heaven to the spiraling, ecstatic So Vicious, a glorious anthem that highlights the human fragility in McDowall’s vocal performance, an instrument that has never lost the naïve purity it first exemplified in Strawberry Switchblade’s early 80s recordings. The centerpiece of the album, the title-track, is the greatest Switchblade pop chart hit that never was. Like the veiled melancholy of her former group’s hits, Cut With The Cake Knife hints at a darkness beneath the gloss, a darkness that saw McDowall delve into more esoteric territory with her subsequent recordings and collaborations. Cut With The Cake Knife serves as the bridge between the pop music McDowall had been making with her friends Jill Bryson, Lawrence from Felt and Primal Scream to what became a more extreme, deep sound informed by neo-folk and post industrial music.

Rose McDowall’s role in the canon has always been one of an outsider. Beginning in Glasgow’s East End in the avant proto-noise group The Poems, achieving fame briefly in the 80s and then disappearing into counter-cultural folklore, the emphasis in the internet-age has been skewed towards her image and cultural significance. Unseen to many, her solo work, her groups Sorrow and Spell and her collaborations with a whole host of underground luminaries have still touched lives. As McDowall elucidates: “They're real sad songs, about real life. I've had people come up to me to say I'd connected with them and helped them. I remember a gig in America when we made a whole room cry. It was bizarre. A couple at the front of the stage started crying and then these two boys beside and  suddenly everyone was crying. And I thought, "that's power."

Night School’s issue of Cut With The Cake Knife includes unpublished photographs, extensive sleeve notes from Rose McDowall and 2 bonus tracks culled from the bootleg 7” “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”


ROSE MCDOWALL - Tibet (from Cut With The Cake Knife LSSN027)

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979) Full Album

a small collection of some of my favourite Cocteau tracks, hope you enjoy 💚

Tracklist

01 It's All But An Ark Lark [Intro]*
02 Feathers Oar Blades*
03 Pandora
04 Pink Orange Red
05 Smile
06 The Itchy Glowbo Blow
07 My Truth
08 I Wear Your Ring
09 Seekers Who Are Lovers [BBC Session]
10 Primitive Heart
11 Cico Buff
12 Squeeze-Wax
13 Amelia
14 Wax & Wane*
15 A Kissed Out Red Floatboat
16 Serpentskirt [BBC Session]
17 Cherry-Coloured Funk [Mark Clifford Remix]
18 Pur 
19 Road, River & Rail
20 Sugar Hiccup
21 Those Eyes, That Mouth
22 Lorelei
23 Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires
24 Crushed
25 Perhaps Some Other Aeon*
26 Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops
27 Ella Megalast Burls Forever
28 Grail Overfloweth*
29 Hazel [Peel Session]*
30 Half-Gifts [Acoustic]
31 Pink Orange Red [Acoustic]

All Songs Written By Fraser/Raymond/Guthrie

except *written by Fraser/Raymond/Heggie

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Mixtape - Cocteau Twins

'Mental Breakdown' is from John Maus' A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material out on CD, special edition LP, and digitally on July 17th (North America) / July 16th (Rest of the world) on Ribbon Music.

Tour dates:
06-15 Toronto, ONT - Lee's Palace (NXNE)
07-12 New York, NY - Pier 84 (River Rocks Series) *
07-20-22 Seattle, WA - Capitol Hill Block Party
08-09 Oslo, Norway - Oya Festival
08-10 Gothenburg, Sweden - Way Out West Festival
* w/ Dan Deacon

Find out more info on the release here: http://www.ribbonmusic.com/label/?p=291
Pre-order the Special Edition translucent pink vinyl limited to 500 copies available here: http://bit.ly/mausraritieslp

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John Maus - Mental Breakdown (2004)

MASSIVEATTACK.IE Entry For This Recording - massiveattack.ie/media/bootlegs/filton-airfield-bristol-uk-1st-march-2019/

Artist: Massive Attack
Location: Filton Airfield, Bristol, UK
Date: 1st March 2019
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Source: Audience Recording (Taper: Petrock2000 - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=658692)

Lineage: Icom IC-R5 -> Olympus LS-P1 (44.1kHz 16 bit)

Notes: The first night of two sold out homecoming shows for Massive Attack as part of their Mezzanine XXI tour. The venue for this event was specially constructed hanger erected on Filton Airfield outside Bristol just for this one show. The sound quality of this recording is excellent. Clear with minimal audience chatter. Almost soundboard quality at times.

Total Size: 717.7MB


Tracklist:
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CD 1:
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01. (Intro)                                              - Duration: 02:53
02. I Found A Reason (The Velvet Underground Cover)      - Duration: 05:16
03. Risingson                                            - Duration: 05:29
04. 10:15 Saturday Night (The Cure Cover)                - Duration: 04:13
05. Man Next Door                                        - Duration: 06:35
06. Black Milk                                           - Duration: 06:24
07. Mezzanine                                            - Duration: 07:10
08. Bela Lugosi's Dead (Bauhaus Cover)                   - Duration: 05:01
09. Exchange                                             - Duration: 04:24
10. See A Man's Face (Horace Andy Cover)                 - Duration: 03:10

CD 2:
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01. Dissolved Girl                                       - Duration: 07:14
02. Where Have All The Flowers Gone? (Pete Seeger Cover) - Duration: 04:52
03. Inertia Creeps                                       - Duration: 06:40
04. Rockwrok (Ultravox Cover)                            - Duration: 04:01
05. Angel                                                - Duration: 06:42
06. Teardrop                                             - Duration: 06:08
07. Levels (Avicii cover)                                - Duration: 01:33
08. Group Four                                           - Duration: 10:49
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10 - See A Man's Face (Horace Andy Cover)

Cocteau Twins - Wax And Wane

Cocteau Twins - Orange Appled

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This profile will be gradually uploading live recordings of Massive Attack as well as audio interviews with the band.

Everything will be available to download in lossless audio quality as FLAC files.

10 - See A Man's Face (Horace Andy Cover)

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