20th March will see 4AD repress two more albums from Cocteau Twins on vinyl - their 1982 debut Garlands and 1986’s Victorialand. This means that with the exception of The Moon and the Melodies (their 1986 collaboration with Harold Budd), all the band’s studio albums released across 4AD and Fontana are now back in print.

Photograph by Chris Garnham

Both represses will be pressed on 140g black vinyl, using audio remastered from the original analogue tapes and with art faithful to their original 23 Envelope designs. Download codes are included with both.

You can pre-order Garlands from the 4AD Store here

You can pre-order Garlands from all retailers, and listen, here

You can pre-order Victorialand from the 4AD Store here

You can pre-order Victorialand from all retailers, and listen, here

Garlands was the Cocteau Twins' debut album, released in the early autumn of 1982. It was the only album they made with original bassist Will Heggie. Describing it as “haunting”, “spellbound”, “diaphanous”, and discerning a “frosting of sweetness”, the critics wore out their adjectives; this was rock music - just - but it was conjured in the unlikeliest environment from the strangest of material.



This is Garlands’ first vinyl pressing in over ten years.



Cocteau Twins – Garlands (2020 Vinyl Repress)

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A1. Blood Bitch

A2. Wax and Wane

A3. But I'm Not

A4. Blind Dumb Deaf

B1. Shallow Then Halo

B2. The Hollow Men

B3. Garlands

B4. Grail Overfloweth

