On their second reunion album and first in six years, Slowdive have returned with a collection of songs that is absolutely awe-inspiring. <\/p>\n
At just eight songs and 41 minutes, you may think at first you\u2019re being ripped off. But then you press play on track one, \u201cshanty\u201d and all those opinions just melt away. The combination of the hypnotic music and vocals of Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead and the ambience is enough to make this one of the more exciting tracks I\u2019ve heard this year. There\u2019s a lot of passages throughout the whole record where there are no vocals or subtly whispered lyrics and that\u2019s been quite a change for my brain, but I love it. Think shoegaze for an art exhibit.<\/p>\n
\u201cprayer remembered\u201d is lush and gorgeous and doesn\u2019t feel like a waste of time. That\u2019s when you know you made some good music when it doesn\u2019t feel like there\u2019s any filler to pad out a record. \u201calife\u201d is one of those beautiful tracks where you can\u2019t really make out the words, but what you hear sounds gorgeous when paired with the music. I was enthralled with this record and if you were already a fan, then this will just be another pinnacle for the band. \u201ckisses\u201d is probably the poppiest this record gets, not to say it\u2019s a downer; far from it, it\u2019s the closest the band have come to upping the tempo ever so slightly and not losing one iota of their identity or sound in the progress.<\/p>\n
One of two nearly seven-minute tracks, \u201cchained to a cloud\u201d kicks off with a rollicking keyboard intro and while it contains two choruses spread out over long instrumental passages, it never feels old or stale. It keeps being entertaining and is another track destined for endless repeats. Ending track \u201cthe slab\u201d has one of the best riffs of the year and that alone makes it a massive standout. Really great way to end things.<\/p>\n
Albums like this prove that tried and true bands like Slowdive don\u2019t have to make an album every two or three years. They can take their time and work on stuff until they\u2019re completely satisfied and what they get results in some amazing music you\u2019ll want to keep listening to again and again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":34865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7949],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-46732","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-slowdive","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46732"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46732"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}