Heaven Or Las Vegas

Hele plaat geluisterd, maar ik had het gevoel dat het steeds hetzelfde nummer was.

Nunca ha sido lo mío y sigue sin serlo.

A fantastic album. I love Liz Fraser's voice.

syntwave achtig. Wel fijn om naar te luisteren

Excellent album, beautiful singing and fine musicianship, especially love the bass work.

Droll background music.

Fine

OK but just OK

Impressed. Knew nothing of them prior. Nice pop-y album!

Ethereal and soothing.

Nice enough but essentially background music

Loved it

Very pleasant to listen while working. Dreamlike. Grown on me over the weekend. 4/5

was alright - can see how it's a grower and decent enough in the background. 3 saved to my music. average.

Dreamy

Suffers from not being Treasure, but its Cocteau Twins, so its well above listenable

Unremarkable, inoffensive and over produced. Alright background music.

It was pretty good, I liked the dream-pop sort of style it had going on for sure.

I've already heard this album a few times before. It's lovely.

One of the best sounding records I’ve ever listened to

Up and down. Some beauty in there for sure.

Very fun, solid all the way through. Nothing stood out particularly, so will need to listen again for faves

A pleasant enough listen. Couldn't make out much in the way of lyrics, but understand that may be deliberate. Acceptable background music, but not much more than that. Got a bit of a Lightning Seeds vibe in places.

Great album

A couple of songs I liked, but most of it was just OK background music.

Listenable. Dream pop shoegazy stuff

Zaraz mnie trafi, kolejny dzien z brytyjczykami i tym razem w postaci iscie toksycznej, bo dreamowy pop, czyli pop lat 90 w ktorym instrumentale buduja glownie syntezatory i klawisze, takie cos ala disko polo, wokal takze jest mocno potraktowany wszelakimi efektami co daje efekt krwawiacych uszu i ogolnego rozpierdolu na calej plycie, dobrze ze tortury trwaly tylko 37 minut, lirycznie albumik nie jest az tak bardzo popowy jak daja wrazenie jego instrumentale, ale ciezko grzebac sie w czyms takim, zeby posluchac o motywach zycia i smierci z perspektywy kogos kto wygdal nowe zycie, wokalistka i jeden z bandow memberow, czy tez smierci, jedyny trak ktory jest warty plejkowania jak dla mnie to otwierajacy cherry-coloured funk, bo jeszcze czlowiek nie jest zrazony tym co sie dzieje w pozniejszej czesci materialu

Another good one, on a bit of a roll. I knew what they sounded like but never heard a whole album before, it was well put together

Lovely album, very 80's synth pop feel but also beautifully arranged vocals and mixture of sounds. Very enjoyable album

Nice radio too

Fotzepolitic and title track stand out. Prefer their earlier albums but this is solid and has Liz's voice as always

So, knowing the Cocteau twins had 2 albums on the 1001 list, I listened to both of them in the last few weeks. This one is more “accessible”. Elizabeth Frazer is a talented, diverse vocalist, especially when she doesn’t sing words. There’s lots of multiple vocal overdubbing and harmonies going on, (the title track sounds like Abba). I’m not sure how they handled that live. Anyway, I preferred their 84 release which was more cutting edge so I won’t give this too high a score.

"Heaven or Las Vegas" or "Iceblink Luck"

Hola me parece muy bueno

Surpringly enjoyed

Primera presa de contacte amb Couctau Twins. Dream pop tan inofensiu com ben executat. Molts grups d'aquestes primeres dues dècades del 2000 beuen de la seva influència. Grups, d'altra banda, que a mi em diuen ben poc, com Beach House o M83. En tot cas, aquest àlbum té alguns bons temes, especialmente a la primera meitat. Després la segona es fa més feixuga i dispersa. A destacar la gran veu de la cantant, plena de matisos i amb molts registres.

Curioso: mezcla de The Bee Gees, de las hijas de The Beach Boys, Kate Bush

Prescindible. Ni molesta ni divierte. Olvidable.

Listen again

what she saying

Felt like the 90s all over again.

Throw the Cranberries and The Cure in a blender...

Un disco de nicho con una música muy característica. No es mi estilo y es una música que necesito escuchar más para poder valorar.

If there was a zero I would pick that

this album reminded me a less talented ABBA.

Soft, rätt skön

La musica está bien para relajarte o ponerla mientras curras, se nota que es un grupo británico.

Growing on me and becoming familiar after a few listens over the weekend. Fotzepolitic and I Wear Your Ring are favs. Liked when it went acoustic

Beautiful ephemeral pop that I could listen to on loop forever.

the album finished playing and I didn't notice ahha

This is like if some aliens sang 80s songs in an alien language. It's kind of magical, but I don't know that I ever need to hear it again.

All the songs sound the same. Very winy (as most dream pop goes) and lyrics often abandon recognizable language

Dream pop...

I had no idea what to expect going into this. It was... fine. Nothing spectacular or mind blowing.

Great, good album will listen again

I like them - I think I had heard some of these before. Nice background music.

This was fun, definitely a mood. Unexpected.

Lovely dreampop. I adore Elizabeth Fraser's otherworldly vocals. Fave track - "Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires" for full on nimbly bimbly glossolalia!

Pretty chill background funk

pollege, leggera.. ma non rimane

Pretty good. Kinda blends together like most Cocteau Twins albums. 7/10

Cool and dreamy - good drum machine work and the bass in quintessential 80s. Probably the lyrics and vocals are the most memorable. Got me on a shoegaze kick after and I listened to My Bloody Valentine for awhile.

it was interesting, not my favorite album, but some songs were good.

90s meets psychedelic. Not bad

i'm just a sucker for dreamy, ethereal guitars and vocals to match. this was great.

Good indie sound with a heavy 90s feel.

I like this quite a bit, though I anticipated I would, as it’s sort of in the space of the things I typically like. I hadn’t heard of them before, and I honestly had a hard time understanding a lot of the words – I wondered if some of them were in Gaelic, since it’s a Scottish band. But I generally liked it.

Funky. Liked the 2nd track a lot.

Soft, repetitive & poppy. Not for me

Not bad, really. Very easy listening, I like their voices, and overall, this was pretty all right.

Nah...not my cup o tea.

people were not listening to this in the 90s

Sympa mais sans plus, pas fan du style.

terrible, absolutely terrible

interessante

Relaxing, but not as good as their later work. Decent album though.

The original vapourwave. Listened

First song was sampled on the morning by The Weeknd. Old rock easy listening

I can not tell what language this is

What’s that you’re saying??? Sorry. Can’t hear your words. Is that French? I literally don’t know.

3-3.5/5 silky dream pop.

Zeurderig ninetees album, totaal niet fijn

Some ethereal French shit - kind of slaps tho.

Not bhed. Gave me Beach House vibes

Hát, ez nem csúszott, 2 szám után inkább kinyomtam.

Why haven't I listened to this before?

Enjoyed it even if the lyrics were nonsense, the music was good!

enjoyable techno pop. good to work with. feels very eightes movie

Oh boy, aesthetically pleasing but couldn't understand the lyrics.

Dreamy shoegaze. It's the sound of san junipero

It's good, I just never loved Radiohead

Y

Pleasant swoopy soundscapes. Lyrics are mostly impossible to understand. Nice background music, but not something I would play to listen to with intention.

Great shoegaze. Reminded me of cranberries straddling 80s and 90s alt. Notable songs: cherry-coloured funk, heaven or Las Vegas, pitch the baby.

Who?

Ok album. Pretty cookie cutter 80s/ early 90s. Nothing groundbreaking but nothing bad

Not my usual listening. Not offensive but would only prob have as background music

The 1990's version of me would probably have enjoyed this more.

Punky rock. Not something I'd listen to regularly, but nothing offensively bad.

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Not that bad... not my style too much, but an easy listen for sure.

Terrific dream pop album, reminds me of My Bloody Valentine

cat ham cat

This is an album I find very tough to rate. It sounds very of its time, but has some very modern elements as well. It faded into the background a bit for me (the album was over surprisingly quickly), but I was always into it when I became aware of it. Ultimately, I think I like this album, though it is not something I'm likely to come back to very often 4/5

Decent, lite emo , bra prodd förutom trummor som e väldigt 90s

not bad. not the mood i was in.

Erm... lovely shoegaze soundscape, but genuinely unintelligible lyrics. Enunciate, woman.

One hit album

What an unbelievably difficult time it was to piece together the lyrics.

Good dreamy synth sounds.

Funky and ethereal, sounds like a desert road trip

Unlistenable

Great album, but I like most any earlier one better I think.

3

Now we're talking! Har lyssnat på albumet några gånger nu, så det säger allt. Känns som en korsning mellan typ The Cranberries, Highasakite, och lite annat smått o gott.

Trevligt men inget speciellt.

Dang, pre interesting the switch between English and Scottish Gaelic (maybe?)

It's not exactly BAD but it sure is super boring. There's nothing–literally nothing–about this album that stands out except for the fact that the vocals are utterly indescipherable which takes the album from a "meh" 3 stars to a "nope" 2 stars.

Dream pop sung by an unintelligible Scottish woman never sounded so good. Best track: Iceblink Luck

Boo

Stand out for me was Iceblink Luck, really enjoyed this one. True to the joke that you can't really make out what they're saying. Absolutely hear the influence of Beach House in therw

A hidden gem

Lush, gorgeous. Like a giant blanket. Seems like a great album to get high to. Reminds me of MBV. Favorite tracks are "Pitch the Baby" and "Frou frou Foxes in Midsumner Fires".

Oh my God. Who let this be such utter perfection? This was really really really good. Wow. The atmosphere. The vocals. 10/10.

First album I'm hearing here. Solid stuff!

Last half of the album was stronger than the first half.

sounds decent but my left earbud is bust

Not my type of genre personally, same thing as the Brian Eno record, so my opinion isn't really valid here

This sure as hell sent me to Heaven rather than Las Vegas.

Fairly unique, might come back to it

Fantastic voice but bland bland production. Decent album though

Dreamy indie.... what’s not to love? Nothing!

Headphones on. Sit down in a nice chair. Dream away. Absolutely brilliant and beautiful.