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our coping skills, and I think I was very much in denial, and I think that you can hear that on Blue Bell Knoll. Not one word can you grasp. Giving anything away it just wasn’t allowed". Raymonde claimed there was a greater sense of freedom around the recording of the album, saying "it really felt like a period of creativity and freedom, we were all getting on great musically and socially, Liz and Robin were about to have a baby, I was about to get married, there was lots of joy around. Very productive! It was a really fun record to make".
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The release of the album marked the first time a 4AD release was released commercially in DAT format, with a limited-edition gatefold sleeve being made available for the vinyl release of the album. To further promote the release of the album, two promotional music videos were created to accompany the
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saying "It’s got her best singing since she discovered her higher range. ‘Carolyn’s Fingers’ is absolutely beautiful, and still gives me the shivers". Fraser would later comment on the album, saying "Blue Bell Knoll was the easiest I’ve ever done to make a record. The records are a representation of
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as the 81st best album of the 1980s, with reviewer Stuart Berman calling it "a record that courts the pop mainstream through its crisp, radiant production and also boldly rejects it through vocally smeared songs that are nigh impossible to sing along to."
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from 4AD for North American release. After a period of being out of print while 4AD reclaimed the American distribution rights for their back catalogue, the album (along with much of the band's 4AD material) was remastered by guitarist
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release of "Carolyn's Fingers" and "Cico Buff". 7-inch and 12-inch singles were released to promote the single “Carolyn’s Fingers”, featuring “Ella Megalast Burls Forever” and “A Kissed Out Red Floatboat” as b–sides.
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disagreed, saying in her 2002 review that "from start to finish, it's a record that gleams with grace and emotion; chiming, mournful guitars and layered tapestry of sounds evoke a vast array of imagery".
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Charts. In Japan, the song “Athol-Brose” was released as a single in 1990, accompanied with “Carolyn’s Fingers” and “Iceblink Luck”, following a feature in a Japanese television commercial.
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has some striking moments that are pure Cocteaus at their best", citing the opening track "Blue Bell Knoll", "For Phoebe Still a Baby" and the U.S. single "
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charts? Ever hear the one about being so open-minded that when you lay down to sleep your brains fall out?"
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s Len Comaratta wrote that the album, "with its rich and ambitious expressiveness, returns the band to its
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at number 33 on its list of 1988's best albums. A less favourable response came from
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In 2014, the album was repressed on 180g vinyl using new high definition masters.
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appraised it as "everything that atmospheric music should be and usually isn't".
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Twomey, Chris (17 September 1988). "The Cocteau Twins:
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Index


Studio album
Cocteau Twins
Genre
Dream pop
ethereal wave
Label
4AD
Producer
Cocteau Twins
The Moon and the Melodies
Heaven or Las Vegas
the band name, album title, and original UK art, with Capitol Records' variation
alternative rock
Cocteau Twins
4AD
Capitol Records
Robin Guthrie
Elizabeth Fraser
Utah
Bluebell Knoll
Ivo Watts-Russell
4AD
Elizabeth Fraser
Capitol Records
Carolyn's Fingers
Alternative Airplay
Omroepvereniging VARA
AllMusic
Drowned in Sound

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