Cocteau Twins ?– The Spangle Maker/Pearly Dewdrops Drops 12" EP 4AD BAD 405 1st

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Cocteau Twins ?– The Spangle Maker

Label:

4AD ?– BAD 405

Format:

Vinyl, 12", EP, 45 RPM, Embossed

Country:

UK

Released:

02 Apr 1984

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Ethereal

Tracklist

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A            The Spangle Maker

    Engineer [Mixing] – John Madden (6)Engineer [Recording] – Jon Turner*

              4:40

B1          Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops

    Recorded By, Engineer – John Madden (6)

              5:14

B2          Pepper-Tree

    Engineer [Mixing] – John Madden (6)Engineer [Recording] – Jon Turner*

              3:59

Companies, etc.

    Phonographic Copyright (p) – 4AD

    Copyright (c) – 4AD

    Published By – Beggars Banquet Music Ltd.

    Recorded At – Palladium Studios

    Recorded At – Rooster Studios

    Mixed At – Rooster Studios

    Engineered At – Rooster Studios

    Pressed By – MPO

Credits

    Performer – Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde

    Photography By – Gertrude Käsebier

    Producer – Cocteau Twins

    Sleeve – 23 Envelope

    Written-By – Fraser*, Guthrie*, Raymonde*

Notes

This version is the original release with Embossed sleeve, the centre picture is slightly raised.

Also released with a flat sleeve.

Tracks A and B2 recorded at the Palladium Studios in Edinburgh and mixed at Rooster in West London

Track B2 recorded and engineered at Rooster

January-March, 1984

From a photograph by Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934).

Beggars Banquet Music

? & © 1984 4·A·D

Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (Runouts Side A): BAD 405 A1 MPO

    Matrix / Runout (Runouts Side B): BAD 405 B1 MPO

"...During the recording of Head Over Heels, Guthrie and Fraser participated in the initial This Mortal Coil sessions for their label 4AD, resulting in their cover of Tim Buckley’s Song to the Siren. Those sessions led to an acquaintance with Simon Raymonde, who joined as the replacement for Heggie. The first result was the stellar Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops single and The Spangle Maker EP in early 1984. The three songs featured across the two releases were not only equally striking, they were striking in different ways: The Spangle Maker featured a minimal, tense arrangement that suddenly exploded into a concluding, crashing swoon, while Pepper-Tree was one of their gentlest tracks to date, a serene and exquisite lope that could only be described as sunlight through curtains. But it was Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops that became the band’s biggest track to date, which led to other acts becoming compared to them. The stately pace of the song, in combination with Guthrie’s trademark sound of heavily reverbed guitars that might as well have been bells, that might as well have been keyboards, and beats that punched deep, meant the song sounded like an anthem. Fraser’s soaring vocals, now fully intertwining the easily understood and the utterly incomprehensible, turned it into one...."
Ned Raggett
partial retrieved from The Guardian Website 2018

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