Cocteau Twins是支来自苏格兰的三人乐团。迷朦的音乐气氛下优美夹着伤感，又流露出强烈的死亡浪漫。天才吉它混音大师Robin营造出阴冷颓唐的旋律，再加上女主唱独一无二的声线使他们成为另类音乐界最美的声音。
早期的Cocteau Twins成员是由吉他手Robin Guthrie，女主唱Elizabeth Frazer及贝司手Will组成。82年在4AD旗下发表了首张专辑Garlans(花环），显然那时乐队的风格和大家印象中的仙乐迥然不同。Rob迷幻缥缈的吉他Will沉实的贝司在机械鼓机的衬托下充满着狂野的后朋气息。专辑推出后受到了地下音乐界教父之称的John Peel的赏识，同时在英国独立音乐界引起了不小的轰旋律动，被称为是难得个性化的作品。
真正奠定Cocteau Twins日后风格的是1983年的专辑Head Over Heels(从头到脚），这时的Will已经离队，乐队找来了新的贝司手Simon Raymonde。专辑中那迷离缥缈，迷乱沉重的伤感氛围和低调复古的音乐路线形成了Cocteau Twins日后真正的取向。Head over Heels成功的打入了英国独立大碟榜的首位。同年EP作品Sunburst And Snowblind也成为细碟榜的冠军作品。无论演奏技术和录音技巧上乐队越来越趋于成熟。
提起Cocteau Twins不能不提到着名的<Treasure>（珍宝）这张84年发行的惊世骇俗之作。中世纪的音乐强烈的巴洛克风味，多声部旋律，音乐鲜明的对比，优美又不缺乏震撼力。但ROB表示自己不喜欢这张专辑，可能缘于Treasure商业方面取得的成功，被多家杂志评为年度最佳，LIZ即被评选为最佳女歌手。Treasure被乐评界称之为“The Voice Of God"(天神之声）。封面图片也透露着清冷怪异的气息，与整张专辑的风格相得益彰。不可否认Treasure做的是如此完美，超脱，是我的至爱。

Lana Del Rey第二首新单【Venice Bitch】已全球发行，时长近10分钟！同时，新专辑名为【Norman Fucking Rockwell】，暂定收录11首歌曲，明年初发行。

"It felt like we were in a movie that had a totally implausible ending..."
Slowdive's second act as a live blockbuster has already been rapturously received around the world. Highlights thus far include a festival-conquering, sea-of-devotees Primavera Sound performance, of which Pitchfork noted: "The beauty of their crystalline sound is almost hard to believe, every note in its perfect place."
"It was just nice to realise that there was a decent amount of interest in it," says principal songwriter Neil Halstead. The UK shoegaze pioneers have now channelled such seemingly impossible belief into a fourth studio opus which belies his characteristic modesty. Self-titled with quiet confidence, Slowdive's stargazing alchemy is set to further entrance the faithful while beguiling a legion of fresh ears.
Deftly swerving what co-vocalist/guitarist Rachel Goswell terms "a trip down memory lane", these eight new tracks are simultaneously expansive and the sonic pathfinders' most direct material to date. Birthed at the band's talismanic Oxfordshire haunt The Courtyard - "It felt like home," enthuses guitarist Christian Savill - their diamantine melodies were mixed to a suitably hypnotic sheen at Los Angeles' famed Sunset Sound facility by Chris Coady (perhaps best known for his work with Beach House, one of countless contemporary acts to have followed in Slowdive's wake).
"It's poppier than I thought it was going to be," notes Halstead, who was the primary architect of 1995's previous full-length transmission Pygmalion. This time out the group dynamic was all-important. "When you're in a band and you do three records, there's a continuous flow and a development. For us, that flow re-started with us playing live again and that has continued into the record."
Drummer and loop conductor Simon Scott enhanced the likes of 'Slomo' and 'Falling Ashes' with abstract textures conjured via his laptop's signal processing software. A fecund period of experimentation with "40-minute iPhone jams" allowed the unit to then amplify the core of their chemistry. "Neil is such a gifted songwriter, so the songs won. He has these sparks of melodies, like 'Sugar For The Pill' and 'Star Roving', which are really special. But the new record still has a toe in that Pygmalion sound. In the future, things could get very interesting indeed."
This open-channel approach to creativity is reflected by Slowdive's impressively wide field of influence, from indie-rock avatars to ambient voyagers - see the tribute album of cover versions released by Berlin electronic label Morr Music. As befits such evocative visionaries, you can also hear Slowdive through the silver screen: New Queer Cinema trailblazer Gregg Araki has featured them on the soundtracks to no less than four of his films.
"When I moved to America in 2008 I was working in an organic grocery store," recalls Christian. "Kids started coming in and asking if it was true I had played in Slowdive. That's when I started thinking, 'OK, this is weird!'"
Neil Halstead: "We were always ambitious. Not in terms of trying to sell records, but in terms of making interesting records. Maybe, if you try and make interesting records, they're still interesting in a few years time. I don't know where we'd have gone if we had carried straight on. Now we've picked up a different momentum. It's intriguing to see where it goes next."
The world has finally caught up with Slowdive. This movie could run and run...