Cocteau Twins - Tiny Dynamine / Echoes In A Shallow Bay CD we were treated to a

we were treated to a darkly elegiac - surprisingly restrained - response to the aural fireworks of their Young Team debut from two years earlier

Jet and The Dandy Warhols amongst others

Their eponymous debut album was released on April 20

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Janis Joplin's Pearl

Cocteau Twins - Tiny Dynamine / Echoes In A Shallow Bay CD we were treated to aLP, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, Repress, 180g 4AD (2021) EU Double EP set from 4ADs finest. Tracks 1 4 make up Tiny Dynamite a 1985 EP built from material that was never meant for public consumption. They made these songs purely to test the capabilities of a new studio space but the results are all vintage Cocteau theatrical, gloomy and rich with character. Echoes in a Shallow Bay was the precursor to Victorialand and it found the band in the