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Happy Slowdive release day! everything is alive, the band’s fifth full-length, is out today and while I was going to post a full show recording – there’s still a few out there I haven’t shared – I came across this one-song session the band did for NPR that I seem to have missed completely six […]
I’m going to try and not think about this third preview of Slowdive’s forthcoming everything is alive as meaning that we’ve now already heard more than a third of the new record. I’m just going to enjoy another day with new Slowdive music. This one is the final track of alive and unlike “Falling Ashes”, […]
The second sample of Slowdive’s forthcoming everything is alive doesn’t come with the cinematic, WKW-inspired video that “Kisses” did last month – just a “visualizer” riffing on the album artwork – but that’s a far less important a point than the fact that this is the second new Slowdive song we’ve been gifted in less […]
The Marvel Team-Up I didn’t know I needed… in the Spring of 1996, Lush toured the US with Mojave 3 on what they called the Sharing The Pavement tour in Spring of 1996. The pairing made sense from the perspective of them being 4AD labelmates as well as leading lights of shoegaze in past lives, […]
Time is relative in the world of Slowdive. Yes, it has been six years since their triumphant comeback self-title, but that was 22 years on from Pygmalion and it helps that Slowdive was and remains endlessly re-listenable. But this is not to say that a new record hasn’t been anxiously awaited and as promised by […]
There’s not a lot of live footage of Mojave 3 out there, never mind a complete show, so this recording of their performance at the Benicàssim festival in Spain from August 2000 circa Excuses For Travelers, is really pure gold. it was recorded to VHS from a television broadcast on Spanish TV, and considering the […]
With six years having passed since Slowdive’s last album – a long time, certainly, but not as long as the 22 years that preceded it – there hasn’t been a lot of press around the band of late. Sure, they’ve started touring again in the past year, but really the only question anyone’s asking is, […]
Though not one of my favourite Siouxsie & The Banshees singles – it was the lead single and closing track from 1982’s A Kiss In The Dreamhouse – “Slowdive” gets respect for not only being the namesake for one of my favourite bands ever1, but for producing this video which forces Budgie, Steven Severin, and […]
It wasn’t a single. It was never played live. It didn’t even sound like anything the band had ever done. And yet by virtue of its stark, dark, beauty acting as a coda for the cosmic grandeur of Souvlaki, “Dagger” became one of Slowdive’s signature songs. A scan of the lyrics invite speculation that it’s […]
Every once in a while I think about would-be supergroup Minor Victories and wonder why I didn’t love their 2016 self-titled debut more than I did. I listened to it a lot on its release, and it certainly hit a lot of sweet spots for me, but didn’t end up having the shelf life I […]
