{"id":58524,"date":"2017-05-03T12:33:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=58524"},"modified":"2017-05-03T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T17:33:31","slug":"slowdive-slowdive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/05\/03\/slowdive-slowdive\/","title":{"rendered":"Slowdive: Slowdive"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Along with My Bloody Valentine and Ride, Slowdive is among the most influential of late 80s\/early 90s shoegaze bands. Specifically, their 1993 album Souvlaki<\/em> is considered among the best shoegaze albums ever, along with My Bloody Valentine\u2019s Loveless<\/em> and Ride\u2019s Nowhere<\/em>. Whereas the two latter albums draw heavily on distortion and psychedelia, Souvlaki utilized a shimmering, washed out sound accompanied by rich synths and seemingly endless amounts of guitar delay, which is more akin to much of the dream pop and shoegaze we hear today.<\/p>\n

After initially reforming in 2014, they decided that there was enough interest to start working on new material, and the culmination of that is Slowdive<\/em>. Their new self-titled album avoids the experimentation of 1995\u2019s Pygmalion<\/em> and the growing pains of 1991\u2019s Just For A Day<\/em>, and continues down the path of Souvlaki<\/em> with songs like \u201cEveryone Knows\u201d and \u201cStar Roving\u201d. However, the majority of songs on Slowdive<\/em> are more uptempo and upbeat than anything on Souvlaki<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of issues on Slowdive<\/em>. For one, Neil Halstead\u2019s vocals sound off on several of the tracks. The quiet, soothing style he had with early Slowdive and other projects now occasionally seems unstable, quivering, and unsure on tracks like \u201cSlomo\u201d and \u201cGo Get It\u201d. Another problem is that a few of the tracks just get dragged out. These are typically the tracks that don\u2019t have big hooks to sustain the listener, such as \u201cSlomo\u201d and \u201cGo Get It\u201d. Finally, from oddly muted yet reverbed-out snare drums to distorted hi-hats, the disconnected drum production is poor enough to be distracting on certain tracks. However, this being shoegaze, the drums are usually buried in the mix anyway (which they are here for the most part).<\/p>\n

Overall, by listening to Slowdive<\/em>, one can really hear how the members of Slowdive have grown as musicians. This album is, perhaps, the album that should have always followed Souvlaki<\/em>.
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\nRecommended If You Like: Mojave 3, Neil Halstead, Catherine Wheel, Cocteau Twins, Stone Roses, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Minor Victories, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Swervedriver
\nRecommended Tracks: 2 (Star Roving), 4 (Sugar For The Pill), 5 (Everyone Knows), 6 (No Longer Making Time)
\nDo Not Play: None
\nWritten by Josh Gaston on 05\/03\/2017 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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