Carolyn's Fingers
"Carolyn's Fingers" is a single by Scottish alternative rock and dreampop band the Cocteau Twins, released in 1988 from their album Blue Bell Knoll. The song was released through the 4AD record label and credits all three members of the group – Fraser, Guthrie and Raymonde as songwriters and well as producers. Background and writing The song has since become one of the bands signature songs, receiving high praise from music critics and fans alike. According to Post Punk, Elizabeth Fraser "displays one of the most impressive soprano’ in the history of modern music, resembling some sort of exotic songbird from a higher dimension" with music critic Steve Sutherland claiming that through the song, Fraser seemed to portray someone as having "the voice of god". The song was released as the only single from the Blue Bell Knoll album. Speaking about the overall recording, writing and production of the album, bassist Simon Raymonde said "That whole period was incredibly fertile, even just before Blue Bell Knoll, with This Mortal Coil projects that I was deeply involved with, the Victorialand album [which Fraser and Guthrie recorded as a duo] and the Harold Budd collaboration, we were all super busy and –