slowdive: classic or dud?

https://open.spotify.com/album/4JHDtnmaGvmssF1E5WHfCB

wow they've officially released a remastered version of "sleep", one of their many unreleased tracks that's been widely bootlegged. it's a great one and really makes you wonder how it never got a proper release. this sounds a little better than the bootlegs too.

i wonder if they're putting out an official compilation of all that material? i presume this is for something like that, or a deluxe reissue or something?

neil said in a recent interview that the new album is slowly coming together & they're hoping it'll be out by the time they're playing primavera next year.

ah i'd never looked into it before but it turns out "sleep" was written by christian savill & originally released by his previous band eternal on their only single in 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQxJ-NwPcU

xxp I suspect the 50 hours includes 48 in the kiln

that eternal single rules

30 years old. i remember being given a flier for it at the borderline before a 4ad gig there (insides? ultra vivid scene?)

Classic.

Even when they suck they sound pretty

Gear up

LP5 https://t.co/gtDt1OZF3N

— Rachel Goswell 💙 (@RachelAGoswell) February 10, 2022

Nice. Hope they can and will tour again as well. Loved the show I saw from the reunion album tour.

nice. saw them pre-lp reunion tour and it was pretty stellar. looking forward to it.

Yes, the self-titled was very good certainly but it was the tour for it that convinced me they were truly back and in a better place than ever; absolutely found a way to build on the legacy, do things with their past work differently at many points, and respond so well to the now far, far bigger crowds they're getting, and from younger listeners too, than they did then. Absolutely think this will continue the upward path.

Someone played "Souvlaki" recently. It sounded really good, better than I remembered.

Very. Their albums viewed with time and distance simply sound great, period. I stand by my descriptions of the albums at 2 and 7 on this page

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9966-the-50-best-shoegaze-albums-of-all-time/?page=5

I have extremely fond memories of "Souvlaki." I was never a Slowdive fan - I blame the glut of shoegaze at the time - but I was a huge Eno fan, so of course picked up "Souvlaki" (maybe as an import?) ASAP. And while it never clicked as an album I pulled out all the time, I did used to listen to it as I fell asleep.

They were a very pretty band as well.

Souvlaki is the real best album of the 90’s - nevermind, loveless and okc move over

Souvlaki Space Station with video of deep space from the Hubble Space Telescope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LIO138Z-A

awesome, now do "blue skied an clear"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZtzoWEjQyI

Mind melt. One of my favorite songs ever

that’s great! would love to hear them do “song 1” or whatever it is…

that's completely remarkable, wow. they sound great too! hyped for the album.

unbelievable version, wow they still have ALL the magic and power. I’ve only heard that song as an iffy demo, was it ever fully recorded?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDJKODC20g

yeah it was originally by savill's pre-slowdive band eternal

the slowdive version is a souvlaki-era demo covering it, but it got a ton of views on youtube and i guess the band noticed

the lyrics are different on the slowdive version though, they were obviously reworking it

it had lyrics?!?

So “Sleep” has 10M views on YouTube and looks like their most streamed song on that channel. Kinda bizarre. The live version posted above is great.

yeah it's just one of those quirk of the algorithm things as far as i can tell

Gorgeous!

Only a teaser but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9RpHfPyEx8

Sounds promising! Does this also mean new album? I've been a bit disconnected.

Yeah it's been in the can for a bit so clearly a release is finally near.

i posted the info this thread: Slowdive - s/t (2017): let's rejoice, shall we? - new album everything is alive is out september 1

https://www.reddit.com/r/Slowdive/comments/149cqcn/information_on_the_upcoming_new_album/

here's the press release that was accidentally put up early

Nice, thanks!

Sounds absolutely great. The s/t remains hard to top as far as comeback albums go, and sometimes it's the slowdive I want to listen to the most.

Yeah the strength of that as well as the tour makes me very excited about this new one.

STOKED

In unrelated news I bought a “cloud reverb” pedal and spent the morning blissfully playing “Rutti”, most fun I’ve had on a guitar in a while.

sometimes it's the slowdive I want to listen to the most.

Also true for me, if only because I've listened to Souvlaki 67,354 times

New Music. Tomorrow. 20/06/2023.#slowdive2023 pic.twitter.com/RxVjah8rF6

— Slowdive (@slowdiveband) June 19, 2023

new song is fine but nothing to be excited about, but that's also how i felt about the singles from the last album and the rest was much stronger

New song is so similar to 2017 album in production and effects that it could have been discarded material from those recording sessions. Not complaining at all, though, and looking very forward to the new LP.

In the last couple of years, I've found myself listening to the self-titled far more than I have the classics. Excited for the tour, I think they sound better now than they ever did then.

Seconding that. The only other band of their time that has had as equally a monumental second act like this has been Suede.

Tour dates! See you at the Warfield!

--

June 24: Exeter, UK – Phoenix [sold out]
June 25: Glastonbury Festival, UK
July 17: Perth, Aus - Astor Theatre [sold out]
July 19: Brisbane, Aus - Princess Theatre [sold out]
July 21: Sydney, Aus - Enmore Theatre
July 22: Melbourne, Aus – Forum [sold out]
July 23 :Adelaide, Aus – Hindley St Music Hall
July 26, Auckland, NZ – Powerstation [sold out]
July 29: Fuji Rock Festival, Japan
August 5: Off Festival, Poland
August 11: Ypsigrock Festival, Sicily
August 18: Green Man Festival, Wales
September 23: Toronto, ON - Queen Elizabeth Theatre
September 25: Boston, MA – Citizens House of Blues Boston
September 27: NYC, NY - Webster Hall
September 28: NYC, NY - Webster Hall
September 29: Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer
September 30: Washington, DC - 930 Club
October 2: Cleveland, OH - The Roxy @ Mahall’s
October 3: Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre
October 4: St. Paul, MN - Palace Theatre
October 6: Denver, CO – Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom
October 7: Salt Lake City, UT – The Union
October 9: Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom
October 10: Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo
October 12: San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
October 14: Los Angeles, CA – The Bellwether
Oct 30 - Glasgow, UK - QMU
Oct 31 - Manchester, UK - 02 Ritz
Nov 1 – Bristol, UK - SWX
Nov 3 – London, UK – The Troxy
Nov 5 – Belfast, UK – Mandela Hall
Nov 6 – Dublin, Eire – National Stadium

Slowdive summer starts now!

Swervedriver also came back really strong, to name another "shoegaze" act of their time more or less.

New album thread, as I feel they are big enough to warrant:

Slowdive - Everything Is Alive

Glastonbury set

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0ftbbgd/glastonbury-slowdive

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001tpns

The Morning After Mix
Slowdive curate the perfect two-hour mix to bring in the New Year

(10 days left)

tracklisting

1 Micheal Rother - Katzenmusik 2
2 Ash Ra Tempel - Deep Distance
3 Gal Costa - Presente Cotidiano
4 Selda Bağcan - Yaylalar
5 Broadcast - Where youth and laughter go
6 Pentangle - Light Flight
7 Rino(IO)DJ - Decadance
8 Bernthøler - My Suitor
9 Cindy - Never let me go
10 Neon Indian - Arm Around You
11 Beachwood Sparks - By Your Side
12 Mike Melvoin & Alessi Brothers - Seabird
13 Steve Grey & The Walker Brothers - Nite Flights
14 Love - Alone Again Or
15 The Rolling Stones - Play With Fire
16 John Cale - Andalucia
17 Low - Lullaby
18 Loma - Who Is Speaking?
19 Squirrel Flower - Deluge In The South
20 Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
21 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
22 Jo Beth Young - Wolf Song
23 Nadia Reid - Heart to Ride
24 PJ Harvey - Lwonesome Tonight
25 Lichen Slow - Hobbies
26 Brian Eno - The Big Ship (2004 Digital Remaster)
27 Electric Youth - The Seeker
28 Lightning Bug - September Song, pt. ii
29 Sufjan Stevens - All of Me Wants All of You

is it just me or is it a bit ehhh