Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels - 180g LP

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Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels - 180g LP
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Although often overshadowed by the more popular ‘Treasure’, 'Head Over Heels' is perhaps the most influential album in the Cocteau Twins catalogue and one that continues to confound 35 years later.

The band’s second album, it was recorded in 1983 mostly as a duo of Fraser and Guthrie, and was the first album to make a real feature of Liz Fraser’s made up, oddly intoned vocabulary. More hard-edged and loud than Treasure, Head Over Heels is also a marvel of production - the way the guitars stay submerged in the mix while the drums pound, those sudden key changes, small flourishes etched into eternity. 

more bass isn't surprising and it's welcome. However, the top end where all of the ethereal "space" and crystalline three-dimensionality resided is pretty much gone. Not only is the top end extension less expansive, all of the soundstage depth and width has been pressed into a flat pancake that produces more mundanity and less mystery.If you have an original I think you're all set, unless you want to hear a revised version with better bass but missing the top end extension and enveloping 3D spatiality. No doubt some reading this will conclude "I don't think I want that record in any version." I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this special space and the flood of memories it brought back, both exhilarating and painful though the reissue brought me only so far. The original took me the full way Music 8/10 Sound 7/10 Michael Fremer

 

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