Classic dream pop. But a tad too pop. And not enough dream -- in the sense that I can hear things I like (I kinda like shoegaze) but it's not powerful enough somehow, I'm not taken by a wall of sound as shoegaze can take me. Now I want to listen to some Slowdive.
I was very taken with the Cocteau Twins early albums from the start of the 1980s. They had a certain otherworldly charm that was quite unlike anything else in the charts at the time. However, by the time this album came out in 1990 I think that they’d lost something. I mean, she even sings in English at some points! The production also had that 90s plasticky, digital feel losing the analogue warmth of the earlier recordings. I guess that they were pre-cursors of shoe gaze but by this point, there were other bands who were shoe-ier and gaze-ier.