“Sugar hiccup makes the earth tough and tumble.” “Ruby suns and ruddy cups / Rows of pearly dewdrops’ drops.” “Still being cried and laughed at from behind me.” “You’re really both bone-setters / Thank you for mending me, babies.” Those are the choruses of some of the most popular songs by the Cocteau Twins, a band that seemed to come from out of nowhere with its own musical language, and its own deeply original way of using the English language. Actually, they came from Grangemouth, Scotland. In the 1980s, an unprecedented number of Scottish bands became internationally popular, including Orange Juice, Big Country, The Blue Nile, and The Jesus and Mary Chain, who like the Cocteaus would go far with the combination of electric guitars, drum machines, and a ton of reverb. Cocteau Twins founder Robin Guthrie named the band after the original title of the song “No Cure” by their Glasgow contemporaries Simple Minds.…