Cocteau Twins - "Iceblink Luck" cd single

Although it often seems to top critics' and fans' lists of Cocteaus albums, I'd rate Heaven Or Las Vegas as the third-best of the band's lps, after Treasure and Blue Bell Knoll (and, if the companion Tiny Dynamine/Echoes In A Shallow Bay eps counted as a single album - they were released on a single cd at some point - behind them, too); a'course, while it's only the third-best Cocteau Twins lp, it's still one of my favourite albums of all time and I'm easily enough of a fan to need to hear "Mizake The Mizan" (obviously I'm already well familiar with "Iceblink Luck", and also already knew the other b-side, "Watchlar", from the Stars And Topsoil record)...and, well, of course it's good (I'm beyond the point of attempting to come up with words to give a sense of the Cocteaus' music). Actually, taken together, the three songs on this single rather represent a rarely-glimpsed funkier side to the outfit (particularly "Iceblink Luck" and "Watchlar") which, while not the reason we love them, is pretty effective and surprisingly easy to locate on a continuum with the rest of their work.