The Moon and the Melodies

The Moon and the Melodies is a collaborative studio album by Scottish dream pop band Cocteau Twins and the American minimalist composer Harold Budd. It was released 10 November 1986 by 4AD. The name "Cocteau Twins" did not appear on the release, which instead credited the band's three members (Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde) and Budd individually.

The Moon and the Melodies
Studio album by
Harold Budd feat. Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie & Simon Raymonde
Released10 November 1986
GenreAmbient, dream pop
Length37:20
Label4AD
ProducerHarold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde
Cocteau Twins chronology
Victorialand
(1986)		 The Moon and the Melodies
(1986)		 Blue Bell Knoll
(1988)
Harold Budd chronology
Lovely Thunder
(1986)		 The Moon and the Melodies
(1986)		 Myths 3: La Nouvelle Serenite
(1987)
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AllMusic[1]

A version of the track "Memory Gongs" was released on Budd's Lovely Thunder as "Flowered Knife Shadows", dedicated to Raymonde.

The phrases "bloody and blunt" and "ooze out and away, onehow" came from Fraser's lyrics on the songs "The Tinderbox (Of a Heart)" and "My Love Paramour", both from the 1983 Cocteau Twins album Head Over Heels.

Fraser sings on tracks 1, 4, 5 and 8. Saxophonist Richard Thomas of Dif Juz appeared on tracks 5, 6 and 7.

Track listing

All songs written by Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie, Simon Raymonde and Harold Budd.

  1. "Sea, Swallow Me" – 3:10
  2. "Memory Gongs" – 7:26
  3. "Why Do You Love Me?" – 4:48
  4. "Eyes are Mosaics" – 4:10
  5. "She Will Destroy You" – 4:14
  6. "The Ghost Has No Home" – 7:36
  7. "Bloody and Blunt" – 2:16
  8. "Ooze Out and Away, Onehow" – 3:40

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References
  1. Stepek, Peter. The Moon and the Melodies at AllMusic


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