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Elizabeth Davidson Fraser (29 August 1963)
Associated Acts: Cocteau Twins (1979 - 1997), Sun's Signature (2022 - Present)
Vocal Range: C♯3 - C6
{Vocal Summary}Much to her chagrin, Elizabeth Fraser has been frequently referred to by terms such as "the voice of god", and considering she invented singing in general, it's not hard to hear why. As part of Scottish legends Cocteau Twins, Fraser pretty much wrote the bible on indescipherable, ephemeral dream pop vocals. Her style consists of the aforementioned opaqueness, comforting, warm lows and crepuscular, soaring falsetto. Basically impossible to mistake for anyone else, Fraser's influential voice can be heard far and wide through the indie and pop spectrum.
A fantastically bright voice, Fraser is surprisingly more comfortable lower than most typical vocalists of her timbre. Her chest voice packs quite the punch, though seldom used much outside of the earlier phase of the Cocteau Twins discography. Most of her performances are defined by her trademark falsetto, with its gloriously panoramic timbre, commanding centre stage on pretty much every track she sings on with its majesty.
A fantastically bright voice, Fraser is surprisingly more comfortable lower than most typical vocalists of her timbre. Her chest voice packs quite the punch, though seldom used much outside of the earlier phase of the Cocteau Twins discography. Most of her performances are defined by her trademark falsetto, with its gloriously panoramic timbre, commanding centre stage on pretty much every track she sings on with its majesty.
Significant High Notes
C6 ("Ella Megalast Burls Forever", "Primitive Heart", "Suckling the Mender")
B5 ("Bluebeard" Acoustic version, "Carolyn's Fingers", "Flock of Soul", "Fruitopia" TV Commercial)
B♭5 ("Seekers Who Are Lovers")
A5 ("Golden-Vein", "A Kissed Out Red Floatboat", "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops", "Ups", "Violaine")
G♯5 ("Alice", "Apples", "But I'm Not", "The High Monkey-Monk", "Rilkean Heart")
G5 ("Amelia", "Blue Bell Knoll", "Carolyn's Fingers", "Cico Buff", "Circling Girl", "Ella Megalast Burls Forever", "Fifty-Fifty Clown", "For Phoebe Still a Baby", "Golden Air" Live at the Royal Festival Hall 06/08/2012, "Ice-Pulse", "The Itchy Glowbo Blow", "Know Who You Are at Every Age", "Lifeforms", "Oomingmak", "Perhaps Some Other Aeon", "Sigh's Smell of Farewell", "The Spangle Maker", "Squeeze-Wax", "Theft, and Wandering Around Lost", "The Thinner the Air", "Treasure Hiding")
F♯5 ("Angel on Ruskin", "Bluebeard", "Charade" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, "Cherry-Coloured Funk", "Eperdu", "Eyes Are Mosaics", "Flock of Soul", "In Our Angelhood", "A Kissed Out Red Floatboat", "My Truth", "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops", "Round", "Sea, Swallow Me", "Those Eyes, That Mouth", "Throughout the Dark Months of April and May", "Tishbite", "Violaine")
F5 ("Amelia", "Calfskin Smack", "Expectant Mood", "Isengard Unleashed", "Make Lovely the Day", "Need-Fire", "Oil of Angels", "Pitch the Baby", "Theft, and Wandering Around Lost", "Three Swept", "Whales Tails")
E5 ("Aikea-Guinea", "Allergenic", "Apples", "Bluedusk", "Bushey" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, "Calfskin Smack", "Candleland", "Circling Girl", "Donimo", "The Dutch Venus", "Eggs and Their Shells", "Essence", "For Phoebe Still a Baby", "Golden Air", "Golden-Vein", "Half-Gifts", "Heaven's Gate", "Ivo", "Kala", "A Kissed Out Red Floatboat", "Know Who You Are at Every Age", "Lazy Calm", "Little Spacey", "Lorelei", "Mizake the Mizan", "Mud and Dark", "My Truth", "The Night is Young", "Pandora (For Cindy)", "Primitive Heart", "Pur", "The Purple Pileus", "Quisquose", "Rilkean Heart", "Serpentskirt", "She Moved Through the Fair", "Smile", "Suckling the Mender", "Summerhead", "Those Eyes, That Mouth", "Tranquil Eye", "Treasure Hiding", "Ups", "Watchlar", "Whales Tails", "Winter Wonderland")
E♭5 ("Aloysius", "Another Day", "Apples", "At Last I Am Free", "Beatrix", "Blue Bell Knoll", "Danger in Love", "Enoesque" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, "Eperdu", "Fifty-Fifty Clown", "Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires", "Fruitopia" TV Commercial, "Orange Appled", "The Thinner the Air", "This Love", "Touch Upon Touch", "Underwater" "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" Live at Manchester Arena 29/01/2019)
D5 ("Athol-Brose", Bluedusk", "Cicely", "Dream Baby", "An Elan", "Ella Megalast Burls Forever", "Enoesque" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, "Essence", "Evangeline", "Feet-Like Fins", "Frosty the Snowman", "Golden-Vein", "Group Four", "Half-Gifts", "The High Monkey-Monk", "Hitherto", "Ice-Pulse", "The Itchy Glowbo Blow", "Know Who You Are at Every Age", "Kookaburra", "Lifeforms (Path 4)", "Love's Easy Tears", "Mizake the Mizan", "Moses", "Mud and Dark", "Musette and Drums", "The Night is Young", "Oil of Angels", "Pepper-Tree", "Plain Tiger", "Serpentskirt", "She Moved Through the Fair", "Sigh's Smell of Farewell", "Spooning Good Singing Gum", "Squeeze-Wax", "Summer-Blink", "Summerhead", "Throughout the Dark Months of April and May", "Underwater", "Worship Me")
C♯5 ("About Ship" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, "Angel on Ruskin", "Another Day", "Bluebeard", "Cannibal", "Downside Up", "Eggs and Their Shells", "Eyes Are Mosaics", "Fluffy Tufts", "Golden Air", "Iceblink Luck", "My Truth", "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" 12-inch version, "Persephone", "Round", "This Love", "Tishbite", "Watchlar")
C5 ("About Ship" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, "At Last I Am Free", "Beatrix", Because of Whirl-Jack", "Candleland", "Cico Buff", "Dials", "Donimo", "Dream Baby", "An Elan", "Expectant Mood", "Feet-Like Fins", "Five Ten Fiftyfold", "Fotzepolitic", "From the Flagstones", "Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires", "Glass Candle Grenades", "Hitherto", "How to Bring a Blush to the Snow", "I Wear Your Ring", "In Our Angelhood", "In the Gold Dust Rush", "Kala", "Laugh Lines", "Make Lovely the Day", "My Love Paramour", "Need-Fire", "Pandora (For Cindy)", "Persephone", "Pink Orange Red", "Pitch the Baby", "Pur", "The Purple Pileus", "Quisquose", "Shallow Then Halo", "Strange Fruit" John Peel Session 04/10/1983, "Sultitan Itan", "Summer-Blink", "Take Me With You", "Teardrop", "Three Swept", "Time Baby III", "Treasure Hiding", "Violaine", "Winter Wonderland", "Worship Me")
B4 ("Aikea-Guinea", "All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun", "Bluebeard", "Bushey" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, "The Dutch Venus", "Eperdu", "Five Ten Fiftyfold", "Fotzepolitic", "Heaven or Las Vegas", "How to Bring a Blush to the Snow", "In the Gold Dust Rush", "Ivo", "Lazy Calm", "Lifeforms", "Little Spacey", "Love Insane", "Melonella", "Millimillenary", "Oomingmak", "Ooze Out and Away, Onehow", "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops", "Peppermint Pig", "Primitive Painters", "Quisquose", "Rilkean Heart", "Suckling the Mender", "Sugar Hiccup", "Summerhead", "Teardrop", "Those Eyes, That Mouth", "Worship Me")
B♭4 ("Amelia", "Athol-Brose", "Blind Dumb Deaf", "Enoesque" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, "Feathers-Oar-Blades", "Hearsay Please" John Peel Session January 1983, "Hitherto", "The Hollow Men", "It's All But an Ark Lark", "Make Tomorrow", "Melonella", "Millimillenary", "Moses", "Multifoiled", "Orange Appled", "Play God", "The Spangle Maker", "Speak No Evil", "Strange Fruit" John Peel Session 04/10/1983, "Touch Upon Touch", "When Mama Was Moth")
A4 ("Athol-Brose", "Black Milk", "Blood Bitch", "But I'm Not", "Cicely", "Cico Buff", "Crushed", "Dear Heart" John Peel Session January 1983, "Downside Up", "An Elan", "Eyes Are Mosaics", "Frosty the Snowman", "Glass Candle Grenades", "Great Spangled Fritillary", "Hazel", "Hearsay Please" John Peel Session January 1983, "Heaven or Las Vegas", "I Wear Your Ring", "Iceblink Luck", "Isengard Unleashed", "Ivo", "Kookaburra", "Lifeforms", "Lorelei", "Love's Easy Tears", "Mud and Dark", "Musette and Drums", "My Love Paramour", "Pale Clouded White", "Perhaps Some Other Aeon", "Plain Tiger", "Pur", "Road, River and Rail", "Round", "Sea, Swallow Me", "Seekers Who Are Lovers", "She Will Destroy You", "Silent Spring", "Speak No Evil", "Spooning Good Singing Gum", "Sugar Hiccup", "Summer-Blink", "Teardrop", "Tishbite", "Wax and Wane", "Wolf in the Breast")
Significant Low Notes
A3 ("Aikea-Guinea", "All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun", "Angel on Ruskin", "Apples", "Because of Whirl-Jack", "Blind Dumb Deaf" John Peel Session January 1983, "Caras Galadhon / Lament for Gandalf", "Cicely", "Dear Heart" John Peel Session January 1983, "Dials", "Essence", "Fluffy Tufts", "For Phoebe Still a Baby", "From the Flagstones", "Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires", "Garlands", "Glass Candle Grenades", "Great Spangled Fritillary", "Hazel", "Hearsay Please" John Peel Session January 1983, "Heaven or Las Vegas", "Hitherto", "The Hollow Men", "How to Bring a Blush to the Snow", "Ice-Pulse", "In Our Angelhood", "In the Gold Dust Rush", "It's All But an Ark Lark", "Ivo", "A Kissed Out Red Floatboat", "Know Who You Are at Every Age", "Kookaburra", "Lazy Calm", "Little Spacey", "Lorelei", "Love's Easy Tears", "Musette and Drums", "My Love Paramour", "My Truth", "Oomingmak", "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops", "Peppermint Pig", "Perhaps Some Other Aeon", "Persephone", "Plain Tiger", "Round", "Serpentskirt", "Shallow Then Halo", "She Will Destroy You", "Song to the Siren", "Sugar Hiccup", "Sultitan Itan", "Those Eyes, That Mouth", "Throughout the Dark Months of April and May", "Ups", "Violaine")
G♯3 ("Aikea-Guinea", "Another Day", "Dear Heart" John Peel Session January 1983, "Feathers-Oar-Blades", "From the Flagstones", "Iceblink Luck", "Make Tomorrow", "Mary", "Millimillenary", "Play God", "Silent Spring", "Those Eyes, That Mouth", "Whales Tails")
G3 ("Alas Dies Laughing", "All Flowers in Time Bend Towards the Sun", "Amelia", "Apples", "At Last I Am Free", "Beatrix", "Because of Whirl-Jack", "Blue Bell Knoll", "Calfskin Smack", "Carolyn's Fingers", "Cico Buff", "Donimo", "Ella Megalast Burls Forever", "Evangeline", "Eyes Are Mosaics", "Feathers-Oar-Blades", "Fifty-Fifty Clown", "Five Ten Fiftyfold", "Fotzepolitic", "Frosty the Snowman", "Kala", "A Kissed Out Red Floatboat", "Lifeforms", "Melonella", "Moses", "Multifoiled", "My Love Paramour", "Need-Fire", "Oil of Angels", "Ooze Out and Away, Onehow", "Orange Appled", "Pale Clouded White", "Pandora (For Cindy)", "Peppermint Pig", "Pink Orange Red" Twinlights version, "Plain Tiger", "Primitive Heart", "Pur", "Road, River and Rail", "Sea, Swallow Me", "Seekers Who Are Lovers", "Sigh's Smell of Farewell", "The Spangle Maker", "Squeeze-Wax", "Suckling the Mender", "Take Me With You", "Teardrop", "Three Swept", "Time Baby III", "The Tinderbox (Of a Heart)", "Touch Upon Touch", "Treasure Hiding", "Winter Wonderland", "Worship Me")
F♯3 ("About Ship" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, "Athol-Brose", "Black Milk", "Bluebeard", "But I'm Not", "Cannibal", "Eyes Are Mosaics", "Great Spangled Fritillary", "Mary", "Round", "Spooning Good Singing Gum", "Tranquil Eye")
F3 ("Cico Buff", "I Wear Your Ring", "Mud and Dark", "Pitch the Baby", "Song to the Siren", "Treasure Hiding")
E3 ("Angel on Ruskin", "Bluebeard", "Calfskin Smack", "Cherry-Coloured Funk", "Half-Gifts", "I Wear Your Ring", "Know Who You Are at Every Age", "My Truth", "Spooning Good Singing Gum", "Summer-Blink", "Tishbite", "Ups", "Wolf in the Breast")
E♭3 ("Alice", "Beatrix", "Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires", "Make Tomorrow")
D3 ("Bluedusk", "Underwater")
C♯3 ("Bluedusk")
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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks literally the sensation of standing before the ocean in a cool, summer breeze.
{Questionable Notes}
C7 ("The Hollow Men" [2][4])
B♭5 ("Oil of Angels" [4])
G5 ("Oil of Angels" [4])
E5 ("Great Spangled Fritillary" [1])
C5 ("Love's Easy Tears" [1], "Wax and Wane" [5])
G3 ("Enoesque" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, [2])
F3 ("About Ship" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, [2], "Apples" [2])
E3 ("Carolyn's Fingers" [5])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
C7 ("The Hollow Men" [2][4])
B♭5 ("Oil of Angels" [4])
G5 ("Oil of Angels" [4])
E5 ("Great Spangled Fritillary" [1])
C5 ("Love's Easy Tears" [1], "Wax and Wane" [5])
G3 ("Enoesque" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, [2])
F3 ("About Ship" Live at the Bath Pavilion 04/08/2012, [2], "Apples" [2])
E3 ("Carolyn's Fingers" [5])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.
{Album Ranges}
Cocteau Twins
Studio Albums:
(1982) Garlands: F♯3 - B♭4 - G♯5
(1983) Head Over Heels: G3 - C5 - D5 - F♯5
(1984) Treasure: E♭3 - G3 - C♯5 - G5
(1986) Victorialand: G♯3 - A3 - C♯5 - G5
(1988) Blue Bell Knoll: E3 - F3 - B4 - C6
(1990) Heaven or Las Vegas: E♭3 - A4 - B4 - G5
(1993) Four-Calender Café: E3 - A4 - G5
(1996) Milk & Kisses: E3 - A4 - C♯5 - B♭5
EPs:
(1982) Lullabies: G3 - B♭4
(1983) Peppermint Pig: G3 - C5
(1983) Sunburst and Snowblind: G3 - D5
(1984) The Spangle Maker: G3 - B4 - A5
(1985) Aikea-Guinea: G♯3 - A3 - C5 - E5
(1985) Tiny Dynamine: G3 - A3 - C5 - D5
(1985) Echoes in a Shallow Bay: F♯3 - B4 - E5
(1986) Love's Easy Tears: G3 - B4 - D5 - G5
(1991) Dials / Crushed / The High Monkey-Monk / Oomingmak: A3 - B♭3 - A4 - G♯5
(1993) Snow: G3 - A4 - E5
(1995) Twinlights: G3 - A5
(1995) Otherness: N/A - Remix EP
Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser
(1986) The Moon and the Melodies: F♯3 - C♯5 - F♯5
Sun's Signature
(2022) Sun's Signature: D3 - F5 - G♯5
Cocteau Twins
Studio Albums:
(1982) Garlands: F♯3 - B♭4 - G♯5
(1983) Head Over Heels: G3 - C5 - D5 - F♯5
(1984) Treasure: E♭3 - G3 - C♯5 - G5
(1986) Victorialand: G♯3 - A3 - C♯5 - G5
(1988) Blue Bell Knoll: E3 - F3 - B4 - C6
(1990) Heaven or Las Vegas: E♭3 - A4 - B4 - G5
(1993) Four-Calender Café: E3 - A4 - G5
(1996) Milk & Kisses: E3 - A4 - C♯5 - B♭5
EPs:
(1982) Lullabies: G3 - B♭4
(1983) Peppermint Pig: G3 - C5
(1983) Sunburst and Snowblind: G3 - D5
(1984) The Spangle Maker: G3 - B4 - A5
(1985) Aikea-Guinea: G♯3 - A3 - C5 - E5
(1985) Tiny Dynamine: G3 - A3 - C5 - D5
(1985) Echoes in a Shallow Bay: F♯3 - B4 - E5
(1986) Love's Easy Tears: G3 - B4 - D5 - G5
(1991) Dials / Crushed / The High Monkey-Monk / Oomingmak: A3 - B♭3 - A4 - G♯5
(1993) Snow: G3 - A4 - E5
(1995) Twinlights: G3 - A5
(1995) Otherness: N/A - Remix EP
Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser
(1986) The Moon and the Melodies: F♯3 - C♯5 - F♯5
Sun's Signature
(2022) Sun's Signature: D3 - F5 - G♯5
{Bolds}
C6 ("Suckling the Mender")
B5 ("Bluebeard" Acoustic version)
B♭5 ("Seekers Who Are Lovers")
G♯5 ("Rilkean Heart")
G5 ("Ice-Pulse", "The Thinner the Air")
F♯5 ("Eperdu")
D5 ("The High Monkey-Monk")
A4 ("Sugar Hiccup")
G3 ("Multifoiled")
F3 ("I Wear Your Ring, "Mud and Dark")
E3 ("Know Who You Are at Every Age", "Tishbite")
E♭3 ("Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires")
C6 ("Suckling the Mender")
B5 ("Bluebeard" Acoustic version)
B♭5 ("Seekers Who Are Lovers")
G♯5 ("Rilkean Heart")
G5 ("Ice-Pulse", "The Thinner the Air")
F♯5 ("Eperdu")
D5 ("The High Monkey-Monk")
A4 ("Sugar Hiccup")
G3 ("Multifoiled")
F3 ("I Wear Your Ring, "Mud and Dark")
E3 ("Know Who You Are at Every Age", "Tishbite")
E♭3 ("Frou-Frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires")