Release notes

• All songs written by Fraser/Guthrie/Raymonde except “Sugar Hiccup,” “My Love Paramour,” “Lazy Calm,” and “The Thinner the Air” by Fraser/Guthrie. “Blind Dumb Deaf” by Fraser/Guthrie/Heggie.
• All songs produced by Cocteau Twins except “Blind Dumb Deaf” produced by Ivo/Cocteau Twins. “Sugar Hiccup” and “My Love Paramour” produced by Cocteau Twins and John Fryer.
• Mastered by Robin Guthrie and Walter Coelho.
• Will Heggie plays bass guitar on “Blind Dumb Deaf.”
• Art direction, Vaughan Oliver at v23. Photography, Dominic Davies. Graphic Design, Martin Andersen. Original sleeve photography by Nigel Grierson. Original sleeve designs by Vaughan Oliver.
• Peaked at #63 on the UK album chart.
• According to Elizabeth, the title is taken from a passage in the book The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light by Barbara Hand Clow, in which she writes, “Universe, by the way, is defined by cosmologist Brian Swimme in his outstanding foreword to this book as “simply the universe of stars and topsoil and amphibians and mammals and insects and rivers and wetlands.”