Heaven or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Critic Score
Based on 5 reviews
1990 Ratings: #50 / 370
User Score
1990 Rank: #1All Time: #102
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CRITIC REVIEWS

100
Pitchfork

Every note sounds like a new and richer shade of indigo and scarlet and violet than the previous one, and it doesn’t fade until closer “Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires” descends into silence.

100
AllMusic

Deciding to scale back the overly pretty sound on Blue Bell Knoll while experimenting with more accessibility -- -- the Twins ended up creating their best album since Treasure.

80
Rolling Stone

The Cocteaus ground their soft-focus soundscapes with low-key, bass-driven rhythm tracks, a strategy that nicely enhances the music's appeal.

80
Q Magazine
This warm bath of a record is a sensual invitation to wallow in an opiate haze of drifting melody.
67
Entertainment Weekly

The album does have Vegas-like pop hooks and rhythms floating inconclusively through the songs. But that just makes the proceedings — with singer Liz Fraser’s pillowy voice swaddled in echo — sound even more appealing.

morningsbell
100

You know what?
If you can make something sound epic yet so emotionally personal,
You can take my money.
Is this album perfect? No. But it is one of the most beautiful things I've listened to.

Tielur
95

Letting this album play over and over again while walking around your neighborhead at 12am is something otherworldly and I highly advise it. Cocteau Twins provide some of the most lush and thought provoking dream pop, and yes I still have no idea what Elizabeth is saying, and to be honest I'd rather not know just to keep my mind running.

marvelgaryen
100

IT'S OFFICIAL, my ears just got baptized.

Anitakunt
85

Amazing album, listened to it at the gym today 🥺

Zess
91

EDIT (80-->87--->91)

In 1990, Cocteau Twins' fame began spreading throughout Europe. The group departed from the somewhat niche sphere it had occupied until then. "Heaven or Las Vegas" even achieved a certain commercial success. Yet, alongside this public recognition (with critics already won over for a few years), Robin Guthrie's group experienced a period of turbulence. This didn't stem from internal dissensions, as one might expect in a band that had been together for nearly ... read more

90

Some of the notes Fraser hits are powerful enough to alter your neurochemistry. This may very well be the dreamiest album ever made.

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