

Dif Juz toured with the Cocteau Twins during 1985 and released the mini-album Out of the Trees a year later, but then wasted away. The album is a fitting end to an era and points the way for the Cocteau Twins more. It also contained the first vocal on a Dif Juz record, by the Cocteaus' Liz Fraser her bandmate Robin Guthrie produced the album. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas - TECI-24275. The first Dif Juz LP released on 4AD, 1985's Extractions, was much less ambient (though just as moody) than their previous works. Before Cocteau Twins released their perfect sixth album, Heaven or Las Vegas, in 1990, they had spent the previous decade building a discography as innovative and amorphous as, say, Bowie in the. But the BBC Sessions, released on Guthrie and Raymonde’s fledgling label Bella Union, is an alternative Pandora’s box. The Pink Opaque is the best single compilation, but 2005’s four-CD Lullabies To Violaine (released by 4AD) gathers every EP, from Lullabies on 4AD to Violaine on Fontana. Permanent Sleep + Rain combines the six track mini album Rain (released in 1985). Cocteau Twins BBC Sessions (Bella Union, 1996) Buy. reworked by the likes of Robin Guthrie (co-founder of the Cocteau Twins). produced by Robin Guthrie of label mates Cocteau Twins, and with a revamped. The cassette-only Time Clock Turn Back consisted of extemporaneous vamps recorded live in the studio, and spawned a reunion with 4AD. One of the most distinctive bands of the 80s, with a much imitated sound of blissful vocals and swooning, ethereal atmospherics. some as The Chameleons and Joy Division filtered through Cocteau Twins. The single, 'Ooh La La' (featured on the mini-album) was a runaway hit in. The band's debut six - track mini - album, SCAR ( 1989 ), was a surprise. A third EP in 1983 ( Who Says So?) saw Dif Juz recording for the Red Flame label, and the band's 1985 debut album appeared on Pleasantly Surprised Records. Both works contained textured instrumentals with a wispy, barely there feel which became a cottage industry for 4AD - ten years later. Originally formed as the punk band London Pride by brothers Dave and Alan Curtis, the band included bassist Gary Bromley and drummer Richie Thomas by the release of two EPs for 4AD Records in 1981, Huremics and Vibrating Air. The following year, in 1984, released the album Treasure which contained the magnificent Lorelei as well as the mini format The Spangle Maker which. Early proponents of what only later became the 4AD sound, Dif Juz concentrated on just that, lacking a vocalist on all their recordings except for a guest spot or two by the Cocteau Twins' Liz Fraser.
