Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" Jelly Roll "Beautifully Broken" Self-proclaimed shed-rock band The Chats

Self-proclaimed shed-rock band The Chats were thrust into the spotlight when their song "Smoko" and it's accompanying video went viral

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Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd "The Moon and the Melodies" Jelly Roll "Beautifully Broken" Self-proclaimed shed-rock band The ChatsThe 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