Thursday, 4 December 2025

Slowdive 1991



Slowdive - Spanish Air [1991]
Many didn't but I loved Just For A Day in 91 and it stills sounds great today with the added extra of crushing bittersweet nostalgia. 

Spanish Air is supreme goth-wave dream-gaze. You forget that Slowdive influenced Low but it's all here in this Simon and Garfunkel go goth epic. 


Slowdive - Celia's Dream [1991]
Like a slowed down slacker attempt of the Cocteau Twins aesthetic. The waves of dream waves get satisfyingly rapturous when they go into overdrive at 3.24.


Slowdive - Primal [1991]
Epic. 

Guitars, guitars, guitars!

...and cellos.

Sometimes Slowdive's early technique of having all the faders all the way up all the time worked.

A wild ride of atmospheres somewhere between brooding and blistering. 

Haunting yet heavenly.

A relentless incandescent swirling maelstrom surging to the stars (not their shoes).