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never forget that the term “dream pop” was coined by black people!
they are seriously such an underrated shoegaze band, like you don’t get loveless and screamadelica without i and the rem”i”xes ep https://open.spotify.com/track/3tCJDcjrgzJs3DDhixEyPf?si=sacz6b_QRo2BLk6gWT96rA
this mix is BANANAS https://open.spotify.com/track/6hrhfzW80UuvFXkWp9CR08?si=HPBdeFxnRCyls6frYieDlg
also responsible for one of the biggest dance hits...ever
another great over-looked black shoegaze band that was produced by robin guthrie
“they don’t expect a multi-racial band from north carolina to know anything about the cocteau twins, and we’re like yeah why not? don’t y’all know about james brown?”
“they don’t expect a multi-racial band from north carolina to know anything about the cocteau twins, and we’re like yeah why not? don’t y’all know about james brown?”
one more piece of black dream pop history...ok so 
PRINCE was said to be a big cocteau twins fan and he he even sampled “fifty-fifty clown” on a song he wrote for Martika called “love thy will be done” and it’s stunning https://open.spotify.com/track/5nHQ2YPVcddwJz71aupuvz?si=-BiZgQYvThWV7xNonokuYA
PRINCE was said to be a big cocteau twins fan and he he even sampled “fifty-fifty clown” on a song he wrote for Martika called “love thy will be done” and it’s stunning https://open.spotify.com/track/5nHQ2YPVcddwJz71aupuvz?si=-BiZgQYvThWV7xNonokuYA
last year they put out prince’s demo for the prince originals compilation. so there’s prince and cocteau twins on the same song https://open.spotify.com/track/3vi2IS8APhNorymm9yTsj7?si=sGOeaUr1TJS_eKNI6q02jQ
https://open.spotify.com/track/3vi2IS8APhNorymm9yTsj7?si=sGOeaUr1TJS_eKNI6q02jQ
ok this tweet is starting to lowkey blow up and breonna taylor’s murderers still haven’t been arrested. this juneteenth demand #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor https://justiceforbreonna.org/
also buy a black artist’s music on bandcamp!
