Please whitelist our site in order to continue to access The Quietus.Read the choicest cuts from the Quietus archive: reviews, features and opinion Although beautiful, bubbly blonde Elizabeth Fraser was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. January 8, 1920, she laughs, “I was conceived in Haiti! They were "outgrowing each other" and Fraser was increasingly unhappy in the band. If you love what we do, you can help tQ to continue bringing you the best in cultural criticism and new music by joining one of our subscription tiers. She is so nervous before the interview begins, she's actually shaking,"I live in here," she explains, exasperatedly, pointing at her head. To find out more, click here. She has always struggled to write lyrics, she says, but suddenly something will click and she "goes with the sound and the joy" – that's why she sings sounds and words that have no meaning, of which she can only make sense later. Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi has enlisted former Cocteau Twin’s vocalist Elizabeth Fraser for a heavenly duet with the video for “Cannibal”, a single featured on the Icelandic artist’s forthcoming new solo album Shiver.‘ “When Sigur Rós was starting, we were always compared to Cocteau Twins and I really didn’t like that,” Jónsi says. To find out more, click here. "The inability to pretend is evident even now. "For 18 years, she was the 'voice of God' in the Cocteau Twins. "I don't think I was confident, especially when I stopped singing. There's no middle ground." But then you sing and it shuts up that voice, the other voice is louder… I think my insecurities mean I worry what The two also shared a number of songs by other artists, with Fraser playing a recording from 1951 of the Scottish folk singer Mary Morrison's 'Pipe Imitations', a semi-nonsensical imitation of bagpipes recorded by the folk music collector Alan Lomax in 1951.
"I was so angry with myself," she sighs. "I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to" – she's laughing now – "get over myself! 'Cannibal' is lifted from the Sigur Rós frontman's forthcoming solo albumJónsi has shared a brand new track that features guest vocals from Cocteau Twins' Elizabeth Fraser.Titled 'Cannibal', it's the third track to be unveiled from the Sigur Rós frontman's forthcoming solo album, "When Sigur Rós was starting, we were always compared to Cocteau Twins and I really didn't like that. Within weeks of the announcement, the group's singer, Elizabeth Fraser, announced she wouldn't take part. He literally whisked her off on his Triumph motorcycle, a memory which gets him talking about fellow motorcyclist Drake-Brockman. "I get it in the studio, it's a horror, but it's part of the journey," responded his guest.
A sublime duet they recorded called All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun is floating around the internet, to her irritation.
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She's been offered sums "beyond your wildest dreams" to collaborate with other artists – "the weirdest one was Linkin Park" – but all have been turned down.Fraser sees making music as inseparable from her emotions. "And it's difficult. "Then I got really into Cocteau Twins like two or three years ago. As a wholly independent publication, we rely entirely on our ad bookings to keep The Quietus going. When you need things measured and it's not happening it can make you feel quite mad." Even over speakerphone, their chemistry is obvious. The resulting tensions, she says, caused the greatest lasting damage. The distinctive sound they developed "flowed from the chemistry between us", particularly once Raymonde, a Londoner, replaced Heggie.Fraser didn't feel what they were doing was particularly experimental or original – "It felt like we got away with it," she says – but the early 80s was "a lucky time. "I don't believe that and I don't think he believed that in the beginning," she insists. Their childhood friend-turned roadie-turned-manager wanted them back together "so that everyone could be friends".However, Fraser almost immediately had reservations. After the birth of Lucy-Belle, she'd kept on working, but she made sure she was able to watch her second child grow up.
"We were so close, but certain responsibilities were too much for us," Fraser says. "She changes the subject, suggesting we call Reece – touring in snowbound Bratislava – and immediately brightens.
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