When this EP came out towards the end of 1985, it felt like a disappointment after Aikea-Guinea; like treading water. In hindsight it feels as though maybe the Cocteau Twins themselves felt as if, with these four tracks and those on Tiny Dynamine (released at the same time), they'd exhausted the line of argument that they'd been pursuing for the previous two years. The last track Eggs and their Shells could be the beginning of the different tack they took a few months later with Victorialand — not a case of something new added (the sweet whimsicality had already been there for a while) so much as something old (the drum machines and the last vestiges of goth sensibilities) taken away.
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