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Slowdive is a British band known for its soft, layered music. They became famous in the early 1990s as part of the shoegaze ...
Hailed as one of the shoegaze greats during their early 1990s romp, Ride offered their thoughts on scene kings My Bloody Valentine's finest album.
Over thirty years on from Nirvana’s trilogy of teenage wasteland records, many top rock bands of the 1990s still hold ...
Slowdive lived up to their legacy, delivering a melancholy yet dreamy performance, leaving their fans in a state of ethereal ...
The follow-up, 2023’s “Everything Is Alive,” charted in the Top 10 in the group’s native U.K. and other countries — the first Slowdive album to do so. Listening to the band perform on ...
Creation sat on the album for almost a year before putting it out, then dropped the band a week after its release. Given the UK’s general antipathy towards them, it’s perhaps not a surprise that ...
“Brat,” the album she released in June, used dance-floor beats, blippy synthetic hooks and meme-ready graphics as she assessed just where she stood as a pop striver in her 30s, more than a ...
Either way, they’re worth a good revisit. “Blue Skied An’ Clear” is an essential Slowdive track from Pygmalion, an album that we’d say is Slowdive’s most underrated. The record isn’t ...
On March 14, Slowdive, the British originators of the shoegaze musical genre, played their first Hong Kong gig in a decade as part of their 2024 world tour, promoting the band’s latest album ...
But Slowdive’s guitarist, singer (alongside Rachel Goswell), and primary lyricist, Neil Halstead, has never been the type of musician to dwell on the past. The band’s latest album offering, the ...
When Slowdive broke up in 1995, they did so under a cloud of label trouble, critical condemnation and questions over their commercial credentials. The Reading-based band’s three studio albums of ...
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