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2 Track listing  





3 Personnel  



3.1  Cocteau Twins  





3.2  Additional musicians  







4 Charts  





5 References  














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Twinlights
EP by
ReleasedSeptember 1995
GenreAcoustic rock
Length13:55
LabelFontana
ProducerCocteau Twins
Cocteau Twins chronology
Snow
(1993)
Twinlights
(1995)
Otherness
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Twinlights is a 1995 EP by Scottish alternative rock band Cocteau Twins, released in September 1995 by Fontana Records.

Background[edit]

It was issued along with the EP Otherness as a teaser for the album Milk & Kisses. It is a mainly acoustic recording, 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.

Vocalist Elizabeth Fraser described the 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[edit]

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

Personnel[edit]

Cocteau Twins[edit]

Additional musicians[edit]

Charts[edit]

Chart performance for Twinlights
Chart (1995) Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC)[3] 59
Scotland (OCC)[4] 57

References[edit]

  • ^ "cocteau twins - history - chapter 17: 1995". www.cocteautwins.com.
  • ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  • ^ "Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
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