Cocteau Twins

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Please find a collection of eight poster pictures, sixteen square paintings available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.

The poster pictures use a mesh by Yarona at Sims Modeli, and the square pictures a mesh by OrangeMittens from their old website Indigo Sims (RIP!), so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.

Please also find a collection of three T-shirts featuring various motifs from the band’s artwork over the years.

Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.

All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.

Download

To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.

Enjoy!

The Cocteau Twins were a British band who broke up acrimoniously right at the point they were attracting international attention in the 1990s, but who

found a new generation of fans due to the use of their songs in a number of coming-of-age movies (and one coming-of-death …) along with its former leader singer Elizabeth Frazer’s contribution to The Lord Of The Rings movie trilogy soundtrack.

Regarded by critics as one of the most influential post-punk acts, the band started as similar in sound to Siouxsie and the Banshees and Bauhaus, but with a softer more dreamlike quality which was to have a major influence on the later wave of late 1980s goth acts, particularly All About Eve and Fields of the Nephilim.

As one of the flagship acts on 4AD records, they were heavily involved in its This Mortal Coil project, its first release being the single ‘Song Of The Siren’ – in reality the Cocteau Twins covering a Tim Buckley song. It stayed twenty weeks in the UK indie charts, bringing the band to greater attention, and the following year ‘Pearly-Dewdrops’ Drops’ became the bands first mainstream chart hit (albeit only reaching No.29 in the UK), followed the next year with ‘Aikea-Guinea’ charting in the lower ends of a number of charts worldwide thanks to generous TV coverage of its promotional video (although some attributed this to the affectionate black and white cat in it).

In 1988, the band signed a deal with Capitol Records in the U.S., which marked a change in musical direction to a lighter more accessible sound. Whilst still clearly within the alternative genre, this created tensions with 4AD. Although 1990’s ‘Heaven Or Las Vegas’ was easily the band’s greatest commercial success (and the title track its most successful single worldwide), the band fell out with 4AD and signed (to most commentators’ surprise) with the revived Fontana label – whose only successful act at that time was the synth jazz Swing Out Sister.

During this period, Fraser gave birth to her only child, and her relationship with co-writer Robin Guthrie disintegrated (himself undergoing detox from alcohol and drug dependency), and the strain from the increased workload from becoming more popular worldwide – although not superstar levels – was beginning to tell, and although they managed to complete a seventh album, ‘Milk And Kisses’ featuring the minor hits ‘Tishbite’, ‘Violaine’ and ‘Rilkean Heart’, an enforced layoff afterwards proved fatal to the band’s continuation, and an attempted reunion in 2005 folded at the last minute when Fraser refused to share a stage with Guthrie – ending the Cocteau Twins for good.

The band picked up a new generation of fans when ‘Song To The Siren’ was used in the most emotive scene of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones (2009) when Saiorse Ronan’s character finally accepts she has to move on into the afterlife, which led to ‘Pearly Dewdrop Drops’ and ‘Aikea-Guinea’, along with ‘Lorelei’ and ‘Pandora’ from the band’s 1984 ‘Treasure’ album (their first to receive a UK silver disc), to be placed in a number of Hollywood movies and TV shows. Jackson was also to hire Fraser for his Lord Of The Rings trilogy soundtrack.