Here's some info from one song (there are 4 others I believe). This is straight from the horses mouth. Go to
www.cocteautwinsforums.com for the actual post.
Quite an amazing sound
A kissed out red floatboat
I think I know why I don't answer you. it's the times font.. but I'll make an exception this once.. a kissed out red floatboat...ok.. no synths, it's all guitars and smoke and mirrors...the sort of synthy percussive sound that runs all the way through and is all on its own in the intro is a bunch of filtered delays triggered from the drums. I used a lexicon PCM70 for this..(same with the 'synth' rhythm thing on blue bell knoll)....the filtery pulsating wah sound which appears from the choruses to the end, well the exact guitar I can't remember but the jist of the sound is a triggered gate, triggering 16th notes from the metronome output of the sequencer, an emu sp1200, then wahed....the four guys in anoraks who always used to stand in front of my pedalboard and take notes and photos during the set (and nudge each other and look smug when I made a ****-up) will know that I replicated this sound live using the same gate (a drawmer ds201) and an akai mpc60. The wah was a roger mayer customised crybaby....the acoustic guitar in all probability is my kinkade as mentioned in another answer, probably treble or quadruple tracked, compressed, delayed....The little riffs at the end of the verses were played on a fender electric 12...the sweep sound which crops up now and again is my broken (and I will never get it fixed) boss bf2 flanger...(broken as it goes into a very destructive oscillation if you wind the feedback up all the way - I have a couple of others which don't)....
okaydoke?