Twinlights

Twinlights
EP by Cocteau Twins
Released	September 1995
Genre	Acoustic, voice-piano
Length	13:55
Label	Fontana - CT 3
Producer	Cocteau Twins
Cocteau Twins EPs chronology
Love's Easy Tears 1986 Twinlights 1995 Otherness 1995

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Twinlights is a 1995 EP by Cocteau Twins. It was released along with the EP Otherness as a teaser for the album Milk and Kisses. It is a mainly instrumental affair, with Allmusic referring to it as "being as close to an "unplugged" effort as the Twins ever got." The EP was originally released on CD as well as a 2x7" vinyl set.

The EP has four tracks, two of which were reimagined for Milk and Kisses ("Rilkean Heart" and "Half-Gifts"). "Pink Orange Red", which was released on the 1985 EP Tiny Dynamine, is a stripped down version of the original with a piano playing the melody and opening. "Golden-Vein" is the only track on the EP not to appear on any other release.

Elizabeth Fraser describes this EP as being about a man she fell in love with during the 1994 Four-Calendar Cafe tour. The mystery man has been speculated to be Jeff Buckley by Fraser's biographer, but she has never confirmed or denied this.^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Cocteau Twins; string arrangements by Thomas M. Hill.

1. "Rilkean Heart" - 2:22
2. "Golden-Vein" - 2:49
3. "Pink Orange Red" - 4:29
4. "Half-Gifts" - 4:15

Performers

• Robin Guthrie
• Elizabeth Fraser
• Simon Raymonde
• Phil Boyden - violin
• Paul Costin - violin
• Fiona Griffith - viola
• Helen Thomas - cello

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Cocteau Twins: History part 17