Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels - LPOctober 1983 4AD CAD 313 37 min, 1 sec Track listing When Mama Was Moth Five Ten Fiftyfold Sugar Hiccup In Our Angelhood Glass Candle Grenades In the Gold Dust Rush The Tinderbox (of a heart) Multifoiled My Love Paramour Musette and Drums Release notes Produced by Cocteau Twins and John Fryer at Palladium Studios, Edinburgh. Engineered by Jon Turner. Special thanks to Ally Gibb for saxophone on Five Ten Fiftyfold. Art direction and design by 23
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October 1983
4AD
CAD 313
37 min, 1 sec
Track listing
When Mama Was Moth
Five Ten Fiftyfold
Sugar Hiccup
In Our Angelhood
Glass Candle Grenades
In the Gold Dust Rush
The Tinderbox (of a heart)
Multifoiled
My Love Paramour
Musette and Drums
Release notes
Produced by Cocteau Twins and John Fryer at Palladium Studios, Edinburgh.
Engineered by Jon Turner.
Special thanks to Ally Gibb for saxophone on “Five Ten Fiftyfold.”
Art direction and design by 23 Envelope.
CADC313 (cassette) and CAD313CD (CD) included tracks from the EPSunburst and Snowblind.
Head Over Heelspeaked at #51 on the UK album chart, and was 4AD’s first #1 record on the UK independent chart.
“Musette and Drums” was #5 on John Peel’s “Festive Fifty” for 1983; “Sugar Hiccup” was #14.
The sleeve design was inspired by a scene from the 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky filmStalker.
Lyrics from “When Mama Was Moth,” “Glass Candle Grenades,” “The Tinderbox (of a heart),” and “My Love Paramour” are printed on the inner sleeve of the vinyl release.
The album title takes its name from a lyric in the song “It’s All But An Ark Lark” from the EPLullabies, released the previous year.
The track “Musette and Drums” appears on the 1985 compilationThe Pink Opaque.
Remastered versions of “Sugar Hiccup” and “My Love Paramour” appear on the 2000 compilationStars and Topsoil.
“Sugar Hiccup,” “My Love Paramour,” and “Musette and Drums” have appeared in live performances.
An instrumental track, “My Hue and Cry,” was recorded during this period but never released until a Radio Sessions version appeared in 1999 on theBBC Sessions, though a version of it was performed live during the mid-1980s.
Head Over Heelswas digitally remastered and re-released, with original artwork, by 4AD in 2003.
“Musette and Drums” was included on the two-disc compilation that accompanied the 2013 book,Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4AD, by Martin Aston.