The Pink Opaque (Vinyl LP) Soundtracks & Library

The Pink Opaque (Vinyl LP) Soundtracks & Library180 Gram Vinyl cut from HD masters. Back in 1986, 'The Pink Opaque' brought together the best of the Cocteau Twins' early works to become their first official release in the US. Already a cult band on college radio, some classics like 'Pearly Dewdrops' Drops' and 'Aikea Guinea' were given new mixes for this release, while it also featured 'Millimillenary', the first run out for incoming band member Simon Raymonde. To this day, it remains a great entry

The album was released by Decca Records in the UK on 21 January 1966 but it failed to chart

while the ominous drama of 'Black Blizzard' echoes both John Carpenter and Bernard 'Black Devil Disco Club' Fevre's beautiful and icy synthscapes

Harry Nilsson) and producer Steve Rowland

the latter toasting off guitar licks with bubbling wah wah organ

soft-psych world

The twin guitar attack of Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter help transform Velvet classics like White Light White Heat

frightening and enlightening

Since racking up serious play from the likes of Gilles Peterson

Before moving to New York to study at The New School of Jazz

Nick Cave or Mogwai

Capturing both the great and the scary

A bridge between Hip Hop's underground and mainstream