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''Heaven or Las Vegas'' is the sixth album by Scottish band Cocteau Twins, their last for the music label 4AD. In terms of chart positions, it was the most successful Cocteau Twins album, reaching No. 7 in the UK. Despite 4AD president Ivo Watts-Russell proclaiming it one of the best-ever releases on his label, he released the group from their contract at the end of 1990 because his relationship with the band had soured. ==Background== The album is noteworthy for the musical evolution that the band displayed at the time. The lyrics of vocalist Elizabeth Fraser were more intelligible; many concerned her newborn daughter Lucy Belle. "Suddenly I had confidence which I'd never ever had in my life," Fraser said, "which I consequently lost after I had the baby, because it's such a frightening experience you lose it again and you have to start over again. But it does change you."〔''Select'', October 1990〕 Guitarist Robin Guthrie was experiencing problems with drug addiction. As a result of his decreased time in the studio, bassist Simon Raymonde's playing was more in the forefront. "We've had it in the back of our mind that we wanted to play live again," said Guthrie at the time of the album's release, "so we thought we'd make some of the pieces more like songs we could actually play live… We like it better than all our last records. That's why we continue to make more – because if we made the perfect record we'd sit back and say, 'We can't do any better than that.' We think all our other ones are fucking crap. I'm slightly proud of a couple of tracks on a couple of them, but essentially I'm really embarrassed about what we've done in the past…"〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heaven or Las Vegas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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