Slowdive - Slowdive (Black Vinyl)

Slowdive - Slowdive (Black Vinyl)The world has finally caught up with Slowdive. A band whose reach goes far beyond just influencing music is back, with their first new album in 22 years. The album is called Slowdive self titled in an echo of their debut EP from 1990 and is remarkably direct. "We were always ambitious," says frontman Neil Halstead. "Not in terms of trying to sell records, but in terms of making interesting records. Maybe, if you try and make interesting records,

Quiet Signs

” With his acoustic guitar dropped to a deep

lost again

Big Bend’s September 2024 release a monument to listening through the veil of time and space

the album gained critical acclaim both upon release and retrospectively

and vinyl titles that had been passed around basement shows and then migrated to niche music communities online

Hardly Electronic explores the evolution of old friendships

And though the songs were derived from a place of pain and heartbreak

At the recommendation of several friends

bereft but in awe of a talent that can take a couple of seconds and make it your whole world

approaching the ephemeral with subtle tweaks from new angles

LA-based musician Tom Krell has played with the concept of what we hear and how we communicate in order to create music that exists somewhere between celestial transcendence and an outsider approach to what pop music can be