SS #38: Cocteau Twins, "Heaven or Las Vegas"

A fully immersive, shared listening experience in a high-fidelity environment. Modeled on the “jazz kissa” founded in Tokyo in the 1950’s in which people gathered to drink and listen to records, The Selector Series features a guest “selector” (DJ) who chooses a record that’s important to them that we then play that evening.

The Selectors for this event are series hosts Lee Gardner and Matthew Byars. The record they've chosen is Cocteau Twins' *Heaven or Las Vegas*.

*"Heaven or Las Vegas is the sixth studio album by the Scottish band Cocteau Twins, released on 17 September 1990 by 4AD. Recorded at September Sound in Twickenham, it followed the band's 1988 album Blue Bell Knoll and was their second release to be issued in the United States through a distribution deal with Capitol Records. Heaven or Las Vegas has since been recognised as one of Cocteau Twins' most influential works and as a landmark in dream pop. It peaked at number seven on the UK Albums Chart and number 99 on the US Billboard 200, becoming the band's most commercially successful release. It eventually sold 235,000 copies by 1996. The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and was voted number 218 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. In 2020, Rolling Stone listed it at No. 245 in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time."*

*\-Wikipedia*