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3 unusual facts about Echoes in a Shallow Bay


Echoes in a Shallow Bay

With Fraser's typically indecipherable lyrics it is difficult to be sure, but all the titles on the two EPs seem to have some link with Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).

The Great Spangled Fritillary is a butterfly and while there is no Pale Clouded White there is a Pale Clouded Yellow (as well as several groups of butterflies commonly known as Whites), while Mellonella is the specific name of the Wax Moth Galleria mellonella.

Great Spangled Fritillary

In 1985 Scottish music band Cocteau Twins released a song called "Great Spangled Fritillary"; it was the first of four tracks (each bearing Lepidoptera-influenced names) on their EP Echoes in a Shallow Bay.



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