Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2025-06-13 Fully ensconced in their G-Son

Fully ensconced in their G-Son studio

After the first set's Dark Star>St

with additional production contributed by Jamie xx and Jay Versace

The record was originally released with the band's name as Blink

Mikky Ekko) with 2016 Grammy winner for Producer of the Year Jeff Bhasker serving as the album's executive producer

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2025-06-13 Fully ensconced in their G-SonThe 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