Love's Easy Tears

Love's Easy Tears is an EP by Scottish alternative rock 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. It was the eighth EP released by the band, their last EP for 4AD, and their last EP until 1993's Snow.

Love's Easy Tears
EP by Cocteau Twins
Released	1 September 1986
Studio	Good Earth Studios, London
Genre	Ethereal wave dream pop
Length	13:32
Label	4AD - BAD 610
Producer	Cocteau Twins
Cocteau Twins chronology
Victorialand (1986) Love's Easy Tears (1986) The Moon and the Melodies (1986)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

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

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

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]

References

1. Love's Easy Tears at AllMusic
2. Fischer, Michael (March 23, 1987). "Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy Tears". The Michigan Daily. Retrieved 30 December 2011.