Twinlights

Infobox album
Name = Twinlights
Type = ep
Artist = Cocteau Twins


Released = September 1995
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 13:55
Label = Fontana - CT 3
Producer = Cocteau Twins
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:wzfixquhldje link]
Last album = "Love's Easy Tears" 1986
This album = Twinlights" 1995
Next album = "Otherness" 1995

"Twinlights" is the 1995 EP by the Cocteau Twins. It was released along with the EP "Otherness" as a teaser for the album "Milk and Kisses". It is a mainly instrumental affair with allmusic referring to it as "being as close to an "unplugged" effort as the Twins ever got." The EP was originally released on CD as well as a double vinyl 7".

The EP has four tracks, two of which were reimagined for "Milk and Kisses" ("Rilkean Heart" and "Half-Gifts"). "Pink Orange Red", which was released on the 1985 ep "Tiny Dynamine", is a stripped down version of the original with a piano playing the melody and opening. "Golden-Vein" is the only track on the EP not to appear on any other release.

Elizabeth Fraser describes this EP as being about a man she fell in love with during the 1994 Four-Calendar Cafe tour. The mystery man has been speculated to be Jeff Buckley by Fraser's biographer but she has never confirmed or denied this. [Cocteau Twins: History part 17 "http://www.cocteautwins.com/html/history/history17.html"]

The song "Rilkean Heart" is a homage to Jeff Buckley who was a lifelong lover of Rainer Maria Rilke's work.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Cocteau Twins

# "Rilkean Heart" - 2:22
# "Golden-Vein" - 2:49
# "Pink Orange Red" - 4:29
# "Half-Gifts" - 4:15

* String arrangements by Thomas M. Hill

Performers

* Robin Guthrie
* Elizabeth Fraser
* Simon Raymonde

* Phil Boyden, Violin
* Paul Costin, Violin
* Fiona Griffith, Viola
* Helen Thomas, Cello

Miscellaneous

Cantopop artist Faye Wong covered this version of "Rilkean Heart" in her 1997 album "Faye Wong", in which Guthrie and Raymonde wrote a song "Yu Le Chang" ("Entertainment Ground") for her.

References