Music Review

Four-Calendar Cafe

Cocteau Twins
Reviewed by Josef Woodard | Nov 19, 1993
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Cocteau Twins; Genre: Rock

This enduring Scottish cult band's songs are like alluring objects viewed through frosted panes of glass. A hypnotic haze and liberal doses of reverb still keep things fuzzy on Four-Calendar Cafe, but deceptive pop sweetness — Elizabeth Fraser's songbird voice and gently rumbling drum machines — cuts through the fog. Songs like "Evangeline" and "Squeeze-Wax" have an otherworldly shimmer, a mode perfected by these early architects of dream pop. A-

Originally posted Nov 19, 1993 Published in issue #197 Nov 19, 1993 Order article reprints

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