'Machine Gun' offers gorgeous harmonies between Rachel Goswell & Neil Halstead, while the domeheaded god Brian Eno assists on 'Here She Comes' (.perhaps Slowdive should reform for one more record with Eno at the healm? Make the 'Remain in Light' of shoegazing?). The original 10-track LP sounds more fantastic, which might be down to the pretty horrid sound of the 'Catch the Breeze'-compilation? Single 'Alison' (named after a pleasant former colleague of mine I think?) is sublime stuff, setting the tone for the ambient exploration that follows.
They're much more than that and this LP contains more of worth than the entire career of the Castro-approved MOR-ers! and final LP 'Pygmalion'? Slowdive, as they were called, are often cited in relation to a lame provocative comment by the suicidal one from Manic Street Preachers. It certainly streches rock or guitar music into more ambient and experimental realms, something that was at odds with the retro-stylings of most of the 90s - and perhaps they exhausted this refraction of rawk by the time of the ambient noodlings of the '5'e.p.
If anything this record makes more sense right now alongside the second wave of shoegazing and ambient souls such as Silver Mt Zion, Explosions in the Sky, Boards of Canada, Sigur Ros, & Gwei Lo. Mogwai have cited the'Dive and some of the guitars here aren't that far from the hallowed Slint (oh no, a math rocker is going to assault me.methodically). Here the'Dive (as they were never known.) came into their own - delivering on the promise of their initial work which existed in a plain between AR Kane/Cocteau Twins/My Bloody Valentine & more recent acts such as Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Engineers & a truly awful Swedish band called Jenniforever (or something like that) I had the misfortune of seeing the other night! Slowdive belong to a wave of head music that was missed by the mainstream, most of which has dated as wonderfully - they should be considered alongside Bark Psychosis, Talk Talk, O'Rang, Autechre, Seefeel, Main & Tortoise. Debut 'Just for a Day' (which is reissued alongside the second & third LPs) didn't advance much more on the early e.p.'s/singles ('Slowdive', 'Morningrise','Holding Our Breath').
Despite the fact 'shoegazing' was over in the media's eye with the advent of grungeTM & Nirvanamania, one of the key S/G-acts Slowdive released a classic second LP.
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