Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" Jelly Roll "Beautifully Broken" The band's third album ended

The band's third album ended up peaking at the #48 spot on The Billboard Top 200 chart

Cover the Earth CD (Mud Records) 1996

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Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" Jelly Roll "Beautifully Broken" The band's third album endedThe Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins catalogue unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take