Treasure

Cocteau Twins accurately forecasting baby names in middle class neighbourhoods in 2026.

It’s like Tori Amos covered Kate Bush songs with The Cure as her backing band

Beautiful Cocteau Twins album. Not as dark as their debut or as memorable as Heaven or Las Vegas but still confounding and pretty

A textured, complex dream-pop classic.

Atmospheric dream haze but can't help but want to wake up and listen to some music

Didn’t finish this album. I didn’t enjoy it as much as their Heaven or Las Vegas album.

When this album popped up today, I’d certainly heard of the Cocteau Twins and definitely heard some of their songs on 97X or a John Hughes soundtrack. But I’d be hard-pressed to name one of their songs. I don’t usually listen to such ethereal music, but I liked this one well enough.

I don't really know what to think of this album.

Very etheriel. Big fan. 4/5

Magical and influential.

Lorelei and Aloysius are at the beginning almost the same: Rhythm and instrumental parts, but different songs… Cicely I liked not badly. But for me the album is not worth more than 1.5*

Liked one song…

3.5/5 good vibes for fall days not as much as a heavy hitter tho

Emo girl music... Go cry.

Apt album title

Sorta enjoyed it

Not quite my tempo.

I really ended up liking the ethereal and soft sounds in this album, and will be returning to this one for more. Not what I expected, this one was a pleasant surprise for me.

This was a pleasant album with a variety of nice sounds and soft instruments that went into my ears like driving a car on fresh pavement. The foreign language vocals added to the ethereality of the songs and blended into the instruments as though they were an instrument, themselves. A fine album for relaxing and soft vibing.

I don’t like their sound.

It sure is atmospheric. I appreciate what it is, but I can't say I'll return.

I was not a fan of this from the first song. I found the singing obnoxious and hard to stomach. The music was ok; fairly mellow, but not my thing. 2/5

Ethereal sound with Fraser’s fairly unique vocals being something you like (I do) or don’t. Good at what they did. Sounds dated but I kind of enjoyed. Strong 3.

Has a belting Side A (particularly Persephone and Lorelei). Loses it for me on the back end of the album. Also they need to sue Wolf Alice

Very strong - Part of my Cocteau Holy Trinity. Although I haven't tended to play the entire album unlike HOLV/Victorialand, usually dipping into Pandora/Lorelei but, this listen had me appreciating a couple more of this albums gems.

More enjoyable than the last Cocteau Twins album I was served. I quite enjoyed the more ethereal tracks. Still, not my bag. Not now, not ever.

Is glorious!

Vraiment? Très monotone

This was great so odd so interesting

Purely produced cat torture

Escutar esse album foi uma viagem. As letras quase incompreensíveis, a voz angelical da vocalista, a melodia distorcida e distante, tudo parece de outro mundo, parece um sonho.

On the higher end of 2

Terrible. Listened to it on YouTube. So many positive comments coming from people with cats as their profile pic. Best guess is they dropped some E and rubbed their cats while listening…

Felt like it was 5 minutes long

ISSSAN INSTANT CLASS

This band always seemed a little too abstract, gauzy, and ethereal when I first heard them in the 80's. But, hearing them now, I get it and love it. On songs like "Lorelei" they conjure a feeling and it's transporting. Love the textures, guitars, and, especially Elizabeth Fraser's otherworldly voice. The songs aren't quite as fully fleshed out as their album Heaven or Las Vegas, but this album casts a spell.

Perfect dreary october music. A little less well constructed and immersive than Heaven or Las Vegas but still well worth the listen

I like the dream pop vibes with this one.

I really like the ethereal, reverby sound of this album. It kind of induces a trance-like state and is relaxing and musically pleasing.

Voice of an angel for sure. Jangly and atmospheric.

lightweight and thin. weird compared to heaven or las vegas’s full and lush and vibrant.

Absolutely loving this. Wow

Nice enough in the background, but no bangers like Iceblink Luck or Heaven or Las Vegas to lift me from the ethereal gloom and gaine my full attention.

I do like the eerie, atmospheric and ethereal vibe and it's easy to listen to a couple of songs, but an entire album of this airy singing is overwhelming.

Kinda slow and weird. Don’t like as much as their other album on this list. Could go for another listen though

Sounds pretty melancholic, but serene as well

Ok, I get it now.

bonitinho

Can't say I understood it, but I did enjoy it!

Meh

so ein weltenunterschied zu heaven & las vegas, irgendwie so unpoppy, undefined klingt wie ein langer song, gefällt mir net soo

Dreamy

I had to turn it off at least a half-a-dozen times. I finally made it through though. I guess its just not for me.

Dreamy and interesting and puzzling.

I didn't turn it off.

It’s ok I’m not sure it’s for me

I love pretty dreamy textures and I am not great at paying attention to lyrics, Cocteau Twins are meant for me

Unusually beautiful melodies and vocals, innovative guitars, and brilliant atmosphere make for pioneering ethereal goth music.

LOVED LOVED LOVED THIS. I was genuinely just in awe from start to finish! Their voices are ETHEREAL and this makes me feel like I'm walking through a perfectly preserved forest in the dead of winter. An album that makes me wish I knew more music terms so I could describe what exactly I was hearing and why I loved it.

Possibly didn't give this the fairest listen. I enjoyed it as ethereal dreamy background music. I'd consider it again for something that just drifts along in the background but it didn't particularly engage me or excite me.

Voice was out of place and got really irritating at times with the gibberish. At least Eddie Vedder can be deciphered. Voice was lovely if a bit too high, dogs liked it. Would be better suited to a folk band. I got bored by the album, it all sounded the same. It wasnt bad just boring

Is this what I'd normally go for? No. Did I like it? Yes. Atmospheric, different and a good dose of goth. I was surprised by how much I got along with this album.

Acceptable ethereal rock-pop.

Totally fine!

Not for me! This alternative rock, dream pop style is just odd and doesn't settle right. It's similar to listen to atonal classical music. And the nonsense vocalizations? It's the kind of vibe you hear at Starbucks or a club but don't listen to willingly for enjoyment.

I really enjoyed this. Was it due to the album’s vibes matching the rainy start of autumn that was happening as I listened? Maybe. I’ll need to dig deeper with these folks.

Soooo lovely!

Nah. Not my type of thing.

I think a year or two ago, I would've been endlessly frustrated trying to figure out what makes Cocteau Twins so appealing to people, especially this record. I finally figured it out when I heard "Lorelei" and The Pink Opaque comp. Turns out it's just one of the sexiest records known to man. Fair enough.

I expected to love this yet did not. It was ok and I would listen again but not really seek out. Bummed. 3/5

Este album es espectacular, combina todas las cosas buenas de los cocteau y se mantiene diferente a los demas 10/10

Mid at best

Great album! Rating: 7/10

Musically compelling warbling

Another solid record.

Always have liked these sounds.

Been waiting for this! Simply beautiful, breathtaking and ethereal, love it through and through, 5 stars. Not sure what else is there to say about this, angelic or unintelligible voice of a great frontmen or shoegazy textures which were a big influence on the genre. This was one of the greatest discoveries for me in the past few years.

Efter min indledende wtf-reaktion må jeg indrømme, at det kan noget. Det skal høres mere.

Ethereal, operatic, 80s synth pop with a drum machine. Still well crafted.

A great rainy day album, even if I can't understand a word of it. Nice dreamy sounds, and way ahead of its time, if you're in the mood this one plays nicely.

This is my second time listening to this album, and it absolutely fits the name Dream Pop. It’s dreamlike, ethereal, surreal, and abstract. This is definitely one of those albums you start from the beginning and just let it play all the way through. The whole thing feels like a journey, with each track seamlessly flowing into the next.

RATING: 9/10 HIGHLIGHT: Aloysius LOWLIGHT: Persephone

Definitely a very unique sound. Don't sound like anything else I've heard before. 80s dream-pop Enya is what comes closest to mind, 'Beatrix' in particular perhaps. Overall this was not too bad, but I am not a fan of the mix. While I enjoy dream-like and ambient music a lot, the reverb has to be done with taste not to drown everything out. And here it just becomes a bit too unintelligible - the drums, the vocals, everything. Still, there are nuggets of greatness here, like 'Pandora (For Cindy)' for example. Clearly the vocalist is very talented and more or less makes the album. Probably nothing I'll return to instantly, but could see this grow on me.

Finally, a new discovery! This reminded me why I started this project in the first place. I really enjoyed this one. It reminded me of more modern bands like M83: dreamy, poppy, and with what I thought was a retro ’80s vibe, only to find out that it actually was ’80s. I would’ve guessed this was released maybe 20 years later. The thing I liked least about the album was the mixing. A lot of the drums felt flat and overly compressed. Such a shame. Maybe someday they’ll remix it? Both “Lorelei” and “Persephone” were stellar tracks, and I thought the whole album maintained a pretty high standard. 4 stars!

Beautiful album. "Persephone" was the track I enjoyed the most. I'm rating this a 4/5 for now as there are other Cocteau Twins works I've liked even more, but it could be a 5/5 with a future re-listen.

It's "fine". This is the very definition of “not my wheelhouse”. It’s just too airy and background-noise for me. There’s nothing “wrong” with it and I’m sure there’s someone who likes this. It’s not me.

Very Scottish, very pretty. Midway through and enjoying it without feeling blown away. I'm having trouble imagining a context where I would listen to it independently. For twee Scottish I'll take Belle and Sebastian, for ethereal vibey-ness I'll take Bjork. It sounds generally excellent for a 1984 album. Drum machine is a little overbearing, but what are you going to do, it was the 80's. In danger of being pretentious. Overall I liked this, but immediately after it ended I can't remember what it sounded like. A nice album, but in the context of this list pretty middle of the road. I am interested to see how their sound progresses when I get to the next of their albums on the list. Nice manageable length always buys some goodwill. Most 3 star album yet?

im feeling kind of manic on this friday morning and cocteau twins immediately put me at ease. what the hell is wrong with me. why the hell is this band so good. who are all these people songs

Not for me

Rate: 9.5/10.

Vocal sounds not entirely unpleasant.

Background music that demanded my attention. Worth more listens.

Always enjoy the soundscapes that the Cocteau Twins create. The vocals are essentially another instrument.

I reviewed "Heaven or Las Vegas" some time back, I remember enjoying it and gave it a 4, but I really struggled with this one. They have a totally different feel. Sorry, but this one gets a 2.

I didn't know Cocteau Twins had *two* generational masterworks in them. Everyone knows Heaven & Las Vegas, but this was a real surprise. The tone is a little different, this is still dreamy, but it's a little more gothic, a little more baroque, but still sounding not of this world. It's also just hauntingly, floatingly beautiful. But there's definitely a sadness, almost a yearning here. If this album were a person, it would be a bioluminescent goth woman from the moon who speaks in tongues. And speaking of tongues, this is another album from Cocteau Twins where I am not fully convinced they are *just* speaking English, or any language for that matter. The delivery is mostly just sounds, and I can make out a word here or there, but just barely. Although this is an album that isn't so much about what the lyrics say, as it is about what the lyrics *could* say. I honestly didn't know I loved music like this so much. But I'm feeling this just as much as I felt Heaven & Las Vegas; it's basically perfect.

Thought I would like it more than I did, just kind of misses for me a hair despite its clear quality

Cocteau Twins walked so Chappell Roan could run.

Immense. The title sums it all up. One of my favourite albums ever.

Noticeably worse than heaven or Las Vegas for me....

I love Cocteau Twins beyond measure. The blend of Elizabeth Fraser's vocals, Robin Guthrie's ethereal guitars and keyboard effects are the stuff of dreams and nightmares in a 1920's German Expressionist film kind of way. The songs are more beautiful and dreamy than their prior records (a direction hinted at on the prior record, Head Over Heels); more Kate Bush than Siouxsie and the Banshees. Regardless, I love it all. Cocteau Twins are the only group that sound like Cocteau Twins. Brilliant by every measure, but then, they always were from the start.