Blue Bell Knoll is the sixth album from the dream pop band, the Cocteau Twins. The album was released in October of 1988. It came after the album Victorialand which debuted two years earlier and preceded Heaven or Las Vegas, which was released in 1990.http://www.allmusic.com/album/blue-bell-knoll-r4257 For Blue Bell Knoll, the Cocteau Twins signed with Capitol Records, marking their first album to be released in the United States.http://cocteautwins.com/html/discography/discog_07.html

The album was written and produced by the band. The sleeve design was created by Jeremy Tilston and Paul West.http://www.allmusic.com/album/blue-bell-knoll-r4257/credits The album was digitally remastered by guitarist Robin Guthrie and re-released by 4AD in 2003.http://cocteautwins.com/html/discography/discog_07.html Blue Bell Knoll peaked at 109 on the Billboard Album charts and the single, "Carolyn's Fingers," peaked at number two on the Modern Rock Tracks charts.http://www.allmusic.com/album/blue-bell-knoll-r4257/charts-awards/billboard-single

• Elizabeth Fraser - Vocals
• Robin Guthrie - Guitar
• Simon Raymonde - Basshttp://www.allmusic.com/artist/cocteau-twins-p3932/

The Cocteau Twins were a Scottish dream pop band who had formed in 1979 in Grangemouth, Scotland. During their career, the band utilized vocals with unrecognizable lyrics, treated guitar, tape loops and drum machines. They signed with the English label 4AD when suggested to the label by the art rock band, The Birthday Party. The band disbanded in 1997 after the release of the album, Milk & Kisses, a year earlier. Several compliations, including Stars and Topsoil and Lullabies to Violaine were released in the following years.http://www.allmusic.com/artist/cocteau-twins-p3932/biography

1. Blue Bell Knoll
2. Athol-Brose
3. Carolyn's Fingers
4. For Phoebe Still a Baby
5. The Itchy Glowbo Blow
6. Cico Bluff
7. Suckling the Mender
8. Spooning Good Singing Gum
9. A Kissed Out Red Floatboat
10. Ella Megablast Burls Foreverhttp://www.leonardslair.co.uk/bluebell.htm

"From start to finish, it's a record that gleams with grace and emotion; chiming, mournful guitars and layered tapestry of sounds evoke a vast array of imagery, and five minutes into the album you're no longer listening to Robert Smith of The Cure's favourite band, you're listening to soaring gulls, golden skies and incomprehensible stratospheric heights, all contained beneath the arc of your own imagination." — Gen Williams, Drowned in Soundhttp://drownedinsound.com/releases/4811/reviews/5580-

"Arguably their second essential album after 'Head Over Heels', this record bursts with euphoric greatness. Liz Frazer's vocals are at their acrobatic best from her opera-style trilling on 'Carolyn's Fingers' to the Karen Carpenter-style intonations on the blissful 'Cico Buff'." — Johnathan Leonard, Leonard's Lairhttp://www.leonardslair.co.uk/bluebell.htm