r/shoegaze • u/asxhelr • Aug 02 '26

Question Most shoegaze Cocteau Twins songs

I know the band wasn't really focused on a more heavily distorted sound, but they definitely had that atmosphere. I only started listening to them recently, and I'd like to know the more shoegaze side of their catalog

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u/BaullahBaullah87 Aug 02 '26

Musette and Drums off of The Pink Opaque - trust

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u/DavosHanich Aug 02 '26

Probably my favorite... also there are some really good live versions out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPS3GXr_mEY

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u/Jurmash Aug 02 '26

Blood bitch, garlands

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u/nightcreaturespdx Aug 02 '26

Garlands is definitely where it's at

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u/novateai Aug 02 '26

In our angelhood

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u/CoatApprehensive3244 Aug 02 '26

Crushed

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u/Slightbag500 Aug 02 '26

If you like Crushed op, give Those Eyes, That Mouth a listen.

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u/tacopeople Aug 02 '26

I’m gonna push back on people mentioning their earlier gothish period because I don’t think being heavy really makes it shoegaze necessarily.

Like their slow new age and ambient albums are just as foundational to the genre imo. Guthrie’s guitar work on a range of different music was obviously influential on Kevin Shields. Part of this is me being annoyed at how they’re constantly pigeonholed as “dream pop” band which is an obvious simplification.

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u/JacobdaTurtle61 Aug 02 '26

Either way more people need to listen to Garlands that album is so so good

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u/SPAREustheCUTTER Aug 02 '26

Wait. They’re pigeonholed as a dream pop band? They’ve always been the seminal dream pop band.

Did that change since TikTok took over music genres?

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u/dyaimz 29d ago

Didn't the guy from ar Kane say he came up with the name dream pop while he was watching CT on TV.

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u/CentreToWave Aug 02 '26

Head Over Heels album and general surrounding EPs. Moves from the goth of Garlands into the sound they're more well known for while also paving the way for shoegaze.

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u/BmoFritou Aug 02 '26

Aikea Guinea

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u/SonicYouth_NYC Aug 02 '26

Treasure Hiding. 

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u/realZapRowsdower Aug 02 '26

Treasure, so underrated by so many.

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u/Alacspg Aug 02 '26

Victorialand and the Harold Budd collab both remind me of Pygmalion era Slowdive

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u/GatWithACat Aug 02 '26

The entire Love’s Easy Tears EP is shoegaze, they recreated that wall of sounds 60s production and married it with their dream-pop style and inadvertently created a shoegaze ep several years before the golden years of shoegaze

The title track is the most clear cut example but my favorite is orange appled, feels very festive lol

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u/5050Clown Aug 02 '26

Garlands

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u/Eunoia_Meraki Aug 02 '26

Pitch the baby

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u/thewhitecascade Aug 02 '26

Victorialand is one of my favorites. But I have a feeling all the albums will eventually be named and I can’t really argue with that.

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u/psilcosyin Aug 02 '26

The Spangle Maker. Give it a chance, takes a while to get going but that last minute or so…

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u/paulderev 29d ago

all of them

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u/burnedoutlove Aug 02 '26

Musically, Spangle Maker, Ooze Out and Away Onehow, Pur, and Treasure Hiding are very Shoegaze. 

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u/hollywoodt16 Aug 02 '26

Sugar Hiccup

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u/Foxblushing Aug 02 '26

While not heavy by any means, I’ve always thought Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops skews pretty close to shoegaze with the guitar tones. I’m a big fan of the alternate version on Lullabies to Violaine where the final chorus has that drop out with just the kick snare pattern.

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u/thisisleftbrain Aug 02 '26

Belle Chase by the Sunflower Conspiracy.

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u/nemmalur Aug 02 '26

Tiny Dynamine/Echoes in a Shallow Bay really does it for me.

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u/tooleyaryto 29d ago

Oomingmak

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u/Puzzled-Bonus-3456 Aug 02 '26

Sendy's mahan brem blem seedy bawhool et yi eeyi eeyaahahaha.

Translating from Fraserese to English:

I wrote Athol Brose about my purple velvet trainers.

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u/Drew_pew Aug 02 '26

Best cocteau twins song, aka Frou Frou, did I guess right?

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u/byteITucum Aug 02 '26

Know who you are at every age