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...second album, Otherness, is a return to the drum machines and synthesizers of the Cocteaus' first albums. Yet in tone, the EP is light-years away from those days of bristling desperation. "Feet Like Fins" is the most egregious track in this regard. It sounds a thousand other New Age tracks -- the silvery synthesizer line sticks to three notes, Fraser keeps to a mere two, and the song contains of the same four measures repeated over and over. "Violaine." the one track on the EP with personality, has its sublime moments. In the chorus, Fraser's voice finally breaks through...
...likely be disappointed with the upcoming full-length album. Word is that Fraser considers Milk and Kisses a psychic return to the soothing days of her childhood, as hinted at by its uncharacteristically sentimental title. Judging from Fraser's statements and the material on these two EP's, the Cocteaus seem to have succumbed to the disease that terrifies every Prozac-wary auteur -- a thirst for happiness...