Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - 7" V...by Cocteau Twins

Happy Birthday, Robin Guthrie! Guthrie, Scottish musician, songwriter, composer, record producer and audio engineer, was born on this day in 1962. During his illustrious career, Guthrie has performed guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums and other musical instruments, in addition to programming, sampling and sound processing, for Cocteau Twins and Violet Indiana. Guthrie co-founded Cocteau Twins in 1980, along with his childhood mate Will Heggie, in their hometown of Grangemouth, Scotland. Throughout the band’s history, he was a principal songwriter, playing guitar, bass, keyboard, and handling most of the programming and effects. Prior to forming Cocteau Twins, Robin and Will were members of local Grangemouth four-piece band The Heat, who later released a single—“My Part of Town”—under the name The Liberators in 1980. As a child, Robin’s family had musical instruments in the house, but he’d never had any proper musical training. "I came at the guitar from a very different perspective," Robin explained to Penny Black Music in 2006. "Will, Liz, and I fell into being a band together. I have still got our very first demo, and you can hear the very early musings of the Cocteau Twins there… We never from the outset did any other people’s songs. You know when you are a teenager you’re trying to grasp some sort of identity, aren’t you? You want to make some sort of statement." tinyurl.com

The Guardian ranked their 10 best Cocteau Twins songs and "Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops" was #3 www.theguardian.com

Scottish band Cocteau Twins were known for their ethereal sound and are credited with pioneering the 80's alt rock sub genre of dream pop