Twinlights
title: "Twinlights" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1995-eps", "cocteau-twins-albums", "fontana-records-eps"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinlights" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Twinlights |
| type | ep |
| artist | Cocteau Twins |
| cover | Twinlights (Cocteau Twins album) coverart.jpg |
| released | September 1995 |
| genre | Acoustic rock |
| length | 13:55 |
| label | Fontana |
| producer | Cocteau Twins |
| prev_title | Four-Calendar Café |
| prev_year | 1993 |
| next_title | Otherness |
| next_year | 1995 |
| :: |
| name = Twinlights | type = ep | artist = Cocteau Twins | cover = Twinlights (Cocteau Twins album) coverart.jpg|border=yes | alt = | released = September 1995 | recorded = | studio = | genre = Acoustic rock | length = 13:55 | label = Fontana | producer = Cocteau Twins | prev_title = Four-Calendar Café | prev_year = 1993 | next_title = Otherness | next_year = 1995 | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score =
Background
It was issued along with the EP Otherness as a teaser for the album Milk & Kisses. It is a mainly acoustic recording, with AllMusic referring to it as "being as close to an "unplugged" effort as the Twins ever got". The EP was originally released on CD as well as a 2x7" vinyl set.
The EP has four tracks, two of which were reimagined for Milk and Kisses ("Rilkean Heart" and "Half-Gifts"). "Pink Orange Red", which was released on the 1985 EP Tiny Dynamine, is a stripped-down version of the original with a piano playing the melody and opening. "Golden-Vein" is the only track on the EP not to appear on any other release.
Vocalist Elizabeth Fraser described the EP as being about a man she fell in love with during the 1994 Four-Calendar Cafe tour. The mystery man has been speculated to be Jeff Buckley by Fraser's biographer, but she has never confirmed or denied this.
Track listing
All songs written by Cocteau Twins; string arrangements by Thomas M. Hill.
- "Rilkean Heart" – 2:22
- "Golden-Vein" – 2:49
- "Pink Orange Red" – 4:29
- "Half-Gifts" – 4:15
Personnel
Cocteau Twins
Additional musicians
Charts
::data[format=table title="Chart performance for ''Twinlights''"] | Chart (1995) | Peak position | |---|---| ::
References
References
- [{{AllMusic
- "cocteau twins - history - chapter 17: 1995".
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