Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and the Melodies LP xx1990 Early skateboard culture - and

Early skateboard culture - and it's close ties to punk rock - became a major influence on the three 12 year olds who would form The Generics

teary-eyed mirth

torch songs

Totally re-imagined

tremendous risks are taken

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd - The Moon and the Melodies LP xx1990 Early skateboard culture - andThe 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