Staci Bonner: «In 1982, they hand-picked their record label, 4AD — a company that had corralled all that was gothically ethereal…», Interview with the Cocteau Twins // Reflex magazine, September 1988 / Архивная копия от 24 июня 2011 на Wayback Machine
Fred Perry Subculture: «…the 4AD roots lay within a sub-set of post-punk, and it is this period in the 80s where 4AD have developed a cult status. The label, alongside its artists, nurtured and raised a new and defined sound, predominantly ethereal and dark…», Book presentation of Martin Aston’s Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4ADАрхивная копия от 24 сентября 2015 на Wayback Machine, September 2013
MTV News Staff: "In 1983, Heggie left the band, and the group recorded Head Over Heels as a duo. The album was highly improvised and is the first recording to feature the Twins’ signature sound — Guthrie's lush guitars under Fraser's mostly wordless vocals. The group became a trio again when bassist Simon Raymonde joined in 1984. Later that year, they released Treasure, an album that hit #29 on the U.K. charts and cemented the band's ethereal sound.", Cocteau Twins short biographyАрхивная копия от 5 апреля 2016 на Wayback Machine, January 4, 1998
Simon Reynolds: 4AD. The DozenАрхивная копия от 8 марта 2018 на Wayback Machine, Director’s cut, eMusic, 2006. «4AD will be forever identified with its signature Goth-lite group the Cocteau Twins, but other key signings of this period include Dead Can Dance…»
Fred Perry Subculture: «…the 4AD roots lay within a sub-set of post-punk, and it is this period in the 80s where 4AD have developed a cult status. The label, alongside its artists, nurtured and raised a new and defined sound, predominantly ethereal and dark…», Book presentation of Martin Aston’s Facing the Other Way: The Story of 4ADАрхивная копия от 24 сентября 2015 на Wayback Machine, September 2013
Staci Bonner: «In 1982, they hand-picked their record label, 4AD — a company that had corralled all that was gothically ethereal…», Interview with the Cocteau Twins // Reflex magazine, September 1988 / Архивная копия от 24 июня 2011 на Wayback Machine
Simon Reynolds: 4AD. The DozenАрхивная копия от 8 марта 2018 на Wayback Machine, Director’s cut, eMusic, 2006. «4AD will be forever identified with its signature Goth-lite group the Cocteau Twins, but other key signings of this period include Dead Can Dance…»
MTV News Staff: "In 1983, Heggie left the band, and the group recorded Head Over Heels as a duo. The album was highly improvised and is the first recording to feature the Twins’ signature sound — Guthrie's lush guitars under Fraser's mostly wordless vocals. The group became a trio again when bassist Simon Raymonde joined in 1984. Later that year, they released Treasure, an album that hit #29 on the U.K. charts and cemented the band's ethereal sound.", Cocteau Twins short biographyАрхивная копия от 5 апреля 2016 на Wayback Machine, January 4, 1998
Reesman, Bryan. The Scene Is Now: Dark Wave (англ.) // CMJ[англ.]. — 1999. — April (no. 68). — P. 48.. — «Female vocals, both wispy and operatic, have become fashionable, particularly in the Ethereal subgenre»..
Colin Larkin[англ.]*: «… the label which, more than anyone else, was capable of handling their brand of ethereal, dreamlike elegance.» / Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, p. 1156, Guinness Publishing 1992, ISBN 0-85112-939-0
Oliver Köble: Vollendete Gothic-Ästhetik, interview with William Faith of Faith & The Muse[англ.] and Tess Records[англ.]), Glasnost Wave magazine, issue # 44, p. 11, Germany, November/December 1994
Rick Poynor[англ.]: Design without Boundaries. Visual Communication in Transition, Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1998, ISBN 1-861-54006-X, p. 127. «The cover designs from 1983 to 1986 were a kind of late-flowering romanticism, as peculiarly English and ethereal as the music of the Cocteau Twins…»
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Colin Larkin[англ.]*: «… the label which, more than anyone else, was capable of handling their brand of ethereal, dreamlike elegance.» / Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, p. 1156, Guinness Publishing 1992, ISBN 0-85112-939-0
