not a fan of the new track but hoping the album is better
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 23 January 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
I enjoyed the new song but
Was kind of hoping for Pygmalion Part Two to be honest.
― JacobSanders, Saturday, 28 January 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
They're doing a festival in Dallas at the end of April:
http://www.fortressfestival.com/
I hope they can tack on an Austin show too!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 28 January 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
European tour!
. Monday 27th March – The Art School, Glasgow, UK – TICKETS ON SALE 10am 17/02/2017
. Tuesday 28th March – Art Club, Liverpool, UK – TICKETS ON SALE 10am 17/02/2017
. Thursday 30th March – The Fleece, Bristol, UK – TICKETS ON SALE 10am 17/02/2017
. Sunday 2nd April – Trabendo, Paris, France – ON SALE NOWhttp://www.digitick.com/index-css5-supermonamour-pg1.html
. Monday 3rd April – Festsaal, Berlin, Germany – ON SALE NOWhttp://www.eventim.de/tickets.html…
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
Album out May 5th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxwAPBxc0lU
― groovypanda, Monday, 3 April 2017 09:33 (seven years ago) link
...and it's FUCKING GREAT!!!!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 25 May 2017 11:40 (six years ago) link
Yup, totally!
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Thursday, 25 May 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
I run all my music via a lossless iTunes library running from an old iMac to a nice DAC plugged into my stereo. Anyway when I called up "recent additions" to put the new Slowdive album on, iTunes slotted the tracks from the 1990 Slowdive EP into the list because the name was the same. While playing it slipped seamlessly from "Slomo" into "Slowdive" while I had my attention on the stuff I'm working on. I made a brief mental note that yeah, the new record really does have a similar sound to the old stuff, this really does sound like ... wait a minute ... !
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Saturday, 27 May 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
these songs all sound like they have been living in my head for years in the most fantastic way .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 8 June 2017 13:47 (six years ago) link
best not-forced sounding comeback
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 8 June 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
Got home pretty blotto and beat down and blasted this very loud. It was heaven. Also the vinyl mastering on this one is really nice. Sugar For the Pill is kind of an instant classic.
― octobeard, Thursday, 8 June 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
Interview with Simon here.
Nice to see he's talking about the next album and so this hopefully won't be one of those one album reunions.
https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/slowdive-electronic-music-simon-scott-interview
― groovypanda, Thursday, 22 June 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
i was a casual slowdive fan, didn't spend a ton of time w/them back in the day but had some friends that liked them and did listen to them on spotify from time to time
anyway, i've been listening to a decent bit of old and new slowdive recently and maybe i'm challopsing but i think this new one is their best album (for me at least)
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
Mission of Burma ftw.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
The fourth Mazzy Star album (following a 17-year hiatus) I think could also fairly be called a not-forced sounding comeback.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
yeah burma almost felt even more like an extension than a comeback, or maybe the album they were working on when they split, like it had some from Forget like "Playland" and "Hunt Again" and then Max Ernst
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
Don't forget Dino Jr
― 44 4s (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
"It would be ridiculous if we were in it for the money because we spent every penny we made from the reformation gigs on the new album." Lol
They were GREAT at Roskilde last saturday. My back hurt so I left a bit early, but then they hit their final noisy climax at exactly the moment the sun came back out for the first time in four days, and it was magical.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:34 (six years ago) link
kind of growing on me
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:30 (six years ago) link
Those ambient and more minimal techno influences are going to be stronger in the next record, plus Terry Reilly or Steve Reich-type minimalism.
from that interview upthread
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
I didn't like "Sugar For The Pill" when I heard it as a single but in the album it sounds fine. I've ended up really liking this album, it's sounded great on the stronger days of summer.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 23:42 (six years ago) link
f. hazel OTM
Mazzy star FTW
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
for everyone's info, here is the bigger, longer thread about this album:
Slowdive - s/t (2017): let's rejoice, shall we?
― Bee OK, Thursday, 6 July 2017 00:00 (six years ago) link