Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2025-06-13 and produced by guitarist and

and produced by guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge

In 2019 they will play worldwide festivals including Shaky Knees

bursting with the wisdom and perspective accrued by the business of someone who has really lived and loved

and the ultrafeminine

Hill's reenergized outlook is plainly evident in this stripped-down performance--it's basically just Hill and her unplugged guitar--as well as the highly spiritual nature of the material

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2025-06-13 and produced by guitarist 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 signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take