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Steve Lamacq: Album Club: Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas

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Steve Lamacq plays Cocteau Twins' sixth studio album Heaven or Las Vegas in full.

Steve Lamacq plays Cocteau Twins' sixth studio album Heaven or Las Vegas from 1990 in full.

Steve Lamacq plays Cocteau Twins' album Heaven or Las Vegas in full.

Released in 1990 on 4AD, this was the group's sixth studio album and their most commercially successful, breaking the UK top ten. Band members Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie were writing and recording the album around the time their first daughter Lucy was born, eventually releasing it on the date of her first birthday. This directly influenced the record with tracks Pitch the Baby and Iceblink Luck referencing Elizabeth's experience of giving birth and welcoming a child. Another key event which contributed to the record's darker moments was the death of bassist Simon Raymonde's father - evident on tracks like Cherry-Coloured Funk and Fotzepolitic. It was a success with critics at the time and was has been retrospectively named as one of the best records from the 90s.

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