Cocteau Twins

[Highly Psychological]

One thing i noticed recently, i much prefer Liz's voice in the early version of the band, their sort of golden period 1983-1986.

If you listen to Milk and Kisses, Four Calender Cafe, or bootlegs of the band on their 1994-1996 tours Liz is singing in a very operatic style, free-form, i still love her voice then, but it loses some of the primal emotion of the early music.
Her voice around Head Over Heels, Treasure, Echoes in a Shallow Bay, Garlands and Song to the Siren, had a reality to it, and is hands down my favorite voice, male or female of all time in the history of music. Everybody in the mid 80s wanted to sound like her. Her rivals like Morrissey and Bernard Sumner and Jim Reid etc sounded utterly feeble! It never came across too theatric or overbearing, She could capture things with her voice no one else could.