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You don't have to be morbidly obsessed, dress in black or read Rimbaud to love Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil, though it probably wouldn't hurt. Either group's songs would make the perfect soundtrack for an epic angst-out stark, atmospheric drones that wind hypnotically ever inward yet neither group qualifies as doom merchants, struggling to extract one last bucket of tears from Joy Division's long dry well.