Cocteau Twins – Milk & Kisses

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Artist: Cocteau Twins

Title: Milk & Kisses

Year: 1996

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Tracklist

  • 1. Violaine (3:45)
  • 2. Serpentskirt (3:57)
  • 3. Tishbite (3:50)
  • 4. Half-Gifts (4:18)
  • 5. Calfskin Smack (4:58)
  • 6. Rilkean Heart (4:02)
  • 7. Ups (3:34)
  • 8. Eperdu (4:38)
  • 9. Treasure Hiding (4:55)
  • 10. Seekers Who Are Lovers (4:45)

Review

If Heaven or Las Vegas was Cocteau Twins’ sunrise, Milk & Kisses feels like their twilight — gentle, glowing, and full of quiet beauty. This final record from the Scottish dream-pop trio is a farewell wrapped in gauze and melody, their sound as lush and otherworldly as ever, but with a newfound tenderness that seeps through every shimmering chord.

Elizabeth Fraser’s voice is as indescribable as always — an instrument of emotion rather than language. On songs like “Violaine” and “Treasure Hiding,” her vocals cascade like light through water, while Robin Guthrie’s guitars shimmer and swirl, painting vast, impressionistic landscapes of longing and release. There’s a sense of acceptance here, a softness that feels like closing a chapter with grace.

Milk & Kisses doesn’t reinvent Cocteau Twins — it refines them. It’s the sound of a band at peace with their own mythology, saying goodbye not with drama, but with quiet transcendence. Like the last rays of sunlight on a calm sea, it lingers long after it’s gone. - Eli

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