Results for “Cocteau Twins”

Artists

Cocteau Twins Cocteau Twins were a Scottish rock band active from 1979 to 1997. They were formed in…

Songs

Cherry-Coloured Funk

Cocteau Twins

This is Elizabeth Fraser's vocal writing at its most sound-driven, using words less for propositional meaning than for texture,…

vulnerability and exposure language breaking down under feeling ambivalence about vulnerability vs self-protection

Avril 14th

Aphex Twin

Avril 14th is a brief solo piano piece by Aphex Twin, built from a simple, halting melodic phrase that repeats with small…

memory fragility impermanence

QKThr

Aphex Twin

QKThr is an instrumental piece from Aphex Twin's Drukqs, an album built from a mix of frantic drill-and-bass programming and…

mechanization vs. intimacy fragmentation controlled chaos

Fingerbib

Aphex Twin

Fingerbib is a mostly wordless ambient-jungle piece built around a fragile, childlike melody line and treated vocal coos, set…

childhood and innocence artificial tenderness tension between fragility and mechanism

#3

Aphex Twin

An untitled, numbered ambient piece from Aphex Twin's largely wordless second Selected Ambient Works volume, this track works…

dissociation interior space repetition and stasis

Iz - Us

Aphex Twin

Iz - Us reduces language to a single barked command, looping and mangling it until the phrase stops functioning as speech and…

dehumanization of language surveillance and shame childhood discipline

Windowlicker

Aphex Twin

Windowlicker is less a lyric than a vocal texture: a track built around fragmented, pitch-shifted, and heavily processed vocal…

vocal manipulation as instrument absurdism and misdirection sound versus meaning

Xtal

Aphex Twin

Xtal opens Selected Ambient Works 85-92 with a wash of pitch-shifted vocal texture over a loose, understated breakbeat, setting…

nostalgia and memory artificial vs organic texture liminality

Alberto Balsalm (1994)

Aphex Twin

Alberto Balsalm is an instrumental IDM track built around a wistful, slightly detuned melodic line laid over skittering…

melancholy nostalgia tension between warmth and machinery childhood/innocence (implied by melody)

Aisatsana [102]

Aphex Twin

Aisatsana [102] is the hushed closing track of Syro, a solo piano piece built from a simple repeating figure that unspools with…

quietude after excess domesticity memory or nostalgia

Flim

Aphex Twin

"Flim" is a wordless miniature built from delicate, glitch-edited drum programming and a childlike melodic figure that sits…

innocence versus mechanism fragility contrast within a body of work

Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos

Public Enemy

This live rendition preserves Public Enemy's 1988 prison-break narrative, a first-person fiction about a Black man who refuses…

mass incarceration militant resistance state coercion and the draft