I love this album very much. Lorelei is a unique song. She actually should sang "Without a doubt". But not really, she sung "da dau da dau...".

I drift into connecting with this material sporadically. I know it is a highly regarded album from an influential dream-rock pioneer, though most of these calibrated confections in retrospect feel too contrived to offer anything but esoteric mood music in the moment- rarely does the swirling moon-drenched beauty aesthetic of it all transform into anything more then the hammered idea. Although a fairly solid release, demonstrating other-worldly vocals and instrumentation with an array of pros and cons in the production department, they have done more engaging, if less blatantly whimsical work.

The clarity and balance in this remaster is worth replacing your old copy. I was not sure after reading other reviews, but rest assured you will have a new reason to play these albums over and over.

Cocteau Twins are one of my top five favorite bands of all time and this is an album (released in 1984) that has slowly gained my appreciation through the years. I've always loved the album but just recently when I happened to think about it, subconsciously, the melody from the fifth track on _Treasure_, "Pandora" played in my head and I had to admit what a great song that is. I just listened to this album the other day and "Pandora" is quickly becoming one of my favorite CT songs.

There are several other great songs on here: the dark and violent "Persephone", (one of the most percussive Cocteau Twins songs), "Lorelei" with its bright bounce, the hopeful but cautious mood of "Aloysius", the surreal and eerie peacefulness of "Otterley" which leads into the stunning, anthemic closer "Donimo". The Twins have a history of excellent songs to close out albums and this one is no exception.

Elizabeth Fraser's vocals are perfectly mixed and "Treasure" features some of the best use of dubbed backing vocals of any Twins album.

This album was quite influential to bands in the 80's and 90's making dream pop, shoegaze or even goth music.
I call this the Twins' breakthrough masterpiece and it's not even my favorite album of theirs. (I prefer "Blue Bell Knoll" and then "Victorialand".) That just shows how much great music Cocteau Twins put out while they were active.

If you could only have one album by Cocteau Twins (really, you should get them all), this is the one I would put forth not only as a primer to their music, but as the defining moment of the genre known as "dreampop." "Treasure" is the bridge between the Cocteau Twins' earlier, darker sound and their later, increasingly ethereal and melodic output. Guitarist Robin Guthrie and bassist Simon Raymonde lay down dense walls of echoey dreamscape, through which floats, and sometimes stabs, the very unique and immensely powerful voice of Elizabeth Fraser. If you are not thoroughly mesmerized by the end of the second track, "Lorelei," then there is just something wrong with you.

Many other bands have been labeled as "dreampop," but no band has ever managed to sound as hauntingly beautiful and original as Cocteau Twins. That Fraser in particular has never been properly acclaimed is a crime.