As expected, Slowdive’s Fall North American tour has yielded a new in-studio session, this one recorded for Los Angeles’ legendary KCRW. In addition to the five-song set, there’s a print interview with the band about everything is alive and the cross-generational appeal of their music.

Your fanbase is on par with the same demographic as artists like Faye Webster, Phoebe Bridgers, and Claud — very young and very online. And, of course, you’ve gone viral on TikTok. Why do you think that is?

Neil Halstead: Well we’re just getting older. [Laughs]

Nick Chaplin: As a subject I went viral. Well, I mean, just vaguely viral, not massively viral. None of us are personally on TikTok. I think the thing that we quite like about it is it’s a format that’s totally organic. You don’t have to get involved and I think if we did get involved, we started popping up [as] official Slowdive, it wouldn’t have the same appeal that it does. 

Slowdive: KCRW Live from HQ @ KCRW