Stuck In Our Head: "Lazy Calm" - Cocteau Twins

In the middling years of our teenage period - maybe about 14 or 15? - one of the first musical areas we really began to explore was that specific brand of Ibizan 'chill out' music. Haunting pop melodies spread out over beats and strings accompanying scenes in our head we could only dream of re-enacting in person. It wasn't half painful to love music made for a lifestyle that - at that age - we could never achieve, and now that we're old enough is from a period well and truly gone. Fast forward to the beginning of this year, and one of the true gems to stick out from our obsesh with the back catologue of a certain Cocteau Twins is a track called "Lazy Calm". The influence it must have had on the forthcoming chill out phenomenon is unmistakeable - ethereal, blissful, dreamlike. Cliched, all been said before but unfortunately the English lexicon doesn't stretch far enough to provide suitable adjectives for this music. The wailing call to prayer horn, emotion-laden piano notes and soothing shrill vocals are motifs used time and time again throughout the 90s in the influential Cafe del Mar and Hotel Costes compilation series'. Absolute chest-crushing euphoria.

See also
"The Thinner the Air" - Cocteau Twins