Album Rating: 4.5

I long for the sun

The midland air



I know that I've lost him

I'm leaving here

Album Rating: 4.0

I might actually like this more than Souvlaki

Album Rating: 4.5

based af

Album Rating: 3.0

revisited this in full for the first time in years, and it's not quite as average as i remember but still has the majority of the worst Slowdive LP songs hmm

Album Rating: 4.5

no u

Album Rating: 4.0

This is charming yet inconsistent or something, definitely not better than Souvlaki lmao but easily better than S/T LP and eclipses their latest me thinks (although both are in a similar-ish ballpark)

Album Rating: 3.0

between this/s-t LP/new one, you could probably make the case that Slowdive are actually an EP band who just happen to have two classic longbois

Album Rating: 3.5

True Johnny, but maybe even more so for me, since I consider only one of those longbois to be very ultra good, whereas I don't really care for the other one.



Furthermore, each of their LPs has at least some superb tracks, which could fit very well on very HQ EPs........................ ⁉‼‼‼

Album Rating: 3.0

This is true + extra true for this one, as one of its two superb tracks is already on an EP : O

Album Rating: 3.5

!!!!!!!!!!!



I think we're onto something here!!!

Oh I missed the anniversary for this ;/ Did someone write a piece to commemorate?

I guess the 30th was a bigger deal.

Album Rating: 3.0

lol yeah am just putting the finishing touches to an unrelated full discog review for the blog

but this one's 32nd ranks pretty low on the list of the new ones release, Souvlaki's 30th in June and my general vibes

Do you think that the new one is good? Should I check it

Album Rating: 3.0

Ummm it nods back to their 90s sound a lot more than the 2017 one - no-one seems either especially in love with of disappointed by it, so worth a check on the basis of comfort music ig?

Album Rating: 2.5

The debut recordJust For A Day (Creation, 1991) testifies to an early and spectacular maturity. Few bands have been able to produce music so psychological and so harmonious. The hypnotic whisperings of the record glide weightlessly on very smooth surfaces, their diaphanous profiles bounce against distorting mirrors, their velvety refrains slip into the meshes of the cosmos.

The Sadman is perhaps the most extraterrestrial and surreal piece, and the vocal polyphony of the group touches a zenith of pure delirium in the aforementionedCatch The Breeze (in particular in its dream tail). Primal is a mini-concert in a crescendo of echoes and reverberations, which blends the sweetness and the brutality of a heroin overdose.

Chromatic abstraction touches pure electronic avant-garde in the instrumental Erik's Song.Celia's Dream excels in that sense of abandonment in the spirals of hypnotic cadences. It is enough to scroll through the titles to realize that their universe is packed with dreams, breezes, waves, air. Guitars, keyboards and percussion are fused in homogeneous flows of fairy sound, always scanned in a solemn way, as on the threshold of Paradise. The traditional format of the rock song resurfaces for a few seconds from the galactic mists in Ballad of Sister Sue and Waves. The martial melody (reminiscent of the "Crimson King") of Spanish Air represents better than any other medium tone of the disc.

Thus, psychedelia becomes mystical symphonism;Slowdive's songs are the "sanctus" of psychedelic rock. This record is one of the most daring achievements of British rock ever.

Album Rating: 2.5

what is there left to write?



tbf Colton writing "almost like a more fleshed out Pygmalion track" about the opener was pretty good too

"Few bands have been able to produce music so psychological and so harmonious."
Yes
" The martial melody (reminiscent of the "Crimson King") of Spanish Air"
Wow he's kind of right

"This record is one of the most daring achievements of British rock ever."
Also based.

"what is there left to write?"
Hmm do you think albums get retrospectives too often? I think even most "classic" (not just cult) albums could be wrote about more.

I only get cynical about the constant re-releases of albums and claims that certain historical albums were more popular than they were.

Album Rating: 2.5

classics are written about too often if anything, far more interested in people trying to push new stuff into thee canon

retrospectives can be interesting if they're not overly positive... when it comes to personal favorites especially, i'd rather read negative opinions than positive ones (this is why robertsona is my favorite user lmoa)

Album Rating: 3.9

my god the HIGHLIGHTS off this tho