Love's Easy Tears Explained

Love's Easy Tears
Type:	ep
Artist:	Cocteau Twins
Cover:	Love's Easy Tears.jpg
Released:	1 September 1986
Studio:	Good Earth Studios, London
Length:	13:32
Label:	4AD
Producer:	Cocteau Twins
Prev Title:	Victorialand
Prev Year:	1986
Next Title:	The Moon and the Melodies
Next Year:	1986

Love's Easy Tears is an EP by Scottish dream pop band Cocteau Twins. It was released by 4AD in September 1986 as a 12" single, and was later re-released as a CD single with a fourth track, Orange Appled, included. The U.S. vinyl release also had four tracks but a different running order.^[1] It was the eighth EP released by the band, their last EP for 4AD, and their last EP until 1993's Snow.

Reception

The EP was critically well received. Michael Fischer of The Michigan Daily described it as "ethereal romanticism" that made "for the closest thing in pop to a music for Gothic cathedrals".^[2]

Track listing

All songs written and produced by Cocteau Twins

7": 4AD / AD 610 (UK)

1. "Love's Easy Tears" – 3:36
2. "Those Eyes, That Mouth" – 3:37

12": 4AD / BAD 610 (UK)

1. "Love's Easy Tears" – 3:36
2. "Those Eyes, That Mouth" – 3:37
3. "Sigh's Smell of Farewell" – 3:33

12”: Relativity 88561-8141-1 (US)

1. "Love's Easy Tears" – 3:36
2. "Orange Appled" – 2:50
3. "Sigh's Smell of Farewell" – 3:33
4. "Those Eyes, That Mouth" – 3:37

CD: 4AD / BAD 610 CD (UK)

1. "Love's Easy Tears" – 3:36
2. "Those Eyes, That Mouth" – 3:37
3. "Sigh's Smell of Farewell" – 3:33
4. "Orange Appled" – 2:46

• CD released in 1991

Notes and References

1. Web site: Love’s Easy Tears . Discogs.
2. News: Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy Tears. Fischer. Michael. March 23, 1987. The Michigan Daily. 30 December 2011.