Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2025-06-13 Mikky Ekko) with 2016 Grammy

Mikky Ekko) with 2016 Grammy winner for Producer of the Year Jeff Bhasker serving as the album's executive producer

and the ultrafeminine

and produced by guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge

with additional production contributed by Jamie xx and Jay Versace

bursting with the wisdom and perspective accrued by the business of someone who has really lived and loved

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" 2025-06-13 Mikky Ekko) with 2016 GrammyThe Moon and the Melodies is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins catalogue unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of Victorialand, released earlier the same year, it signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path theyd never take