Slowdive - Slowdive (CD)

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Deftly swerving what co-vocalist/guitarist Rachel Goswell terms “a trip down memory lane”, the eight tracks of 2017's Slowdive are simultaneously expansive and the shoegaze pioneer s' most direct material to date. Birthed at the band’s talismanic Oxfordshire haunt The Courtyard – “It felt like home,” enthuses guitarist Christian Savill – their diamantine melodies were mixed to a suitably hypnotic sheen at Los Angeles’ famed Sunset Sound facility by Chris Coady (perhaps best known for his work with Beach House, one of countless contemporary acts to have followed in Slowdive’s wake).“It’s poppier than I thought it was going to be,” notes principal songwriter Neil Halstead, who was the primary architect of 1995‘s previous full-length transmission Pygmalion. This time out the group dynamic was all-important. “When you’re in a band and you do three records, there’s a continuous flow and a development. For us, that flow re-started with us playing live again and that has continued into the record.”Tracklist:01. Slomo02. Star Roving03. Don't Know Why04. Sugar for the Pill05. Everyone Knows06. No Longer Making Time07. Go Get It08. Falling Ashes Show more