As grunge and then Britpop dominated the music press and defined the increasingly corporate ‘indie’ scene, Slowdive were marked for death as the epitome of Home Counties, middle class, namby-pamby ...

Slowdive‘s reformation after decades of silence is a moment that many of its fans—and, at points, the band itself—never saw coming. The reunion was spurred by an offer from Primavera Sound, the annual ...

During the band’s initial run in the early ’90s, Slowdive was a victim of genre pigeonholing. The English quintet was fronted by vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Neil Halstead and vocalist and ...

Given the goodwill that they’ve generated since disbanding—the well-regarded reissues, documentaries, and legions of younger bands hailing them as influences—it’s easy to forget how badly Slowdive’s ...

When their third album, Pygmalion, came out in February 1995, Slowdive had already been marching towards their own funeral. The album had been finished and delivered to Creation Records a year prior ...

The big news with yesterday’s Primavera Sound 2014 line-up announcement (for me at least) was the return of shoegaze vets Slowdive. The band broke up 1995 right after the release of their third album, ...

Pitchfork is teaming up with monthly record subscription club Vinyl Me, Please to launch a new series of special edition vinyl records. Co-curated and co-released records will be shared on a quarterly ...

Out of all the bands to emerge out of the early-’90s shoegaze scene in Britain — so named because the musicians spent so much time staring down at their guitar pedals — Slowdive was musically the most ...

Sometimes bands that reunite after a long time apart talk about how they could have avoided splitting up in the first place. Not Slowdive. With the release this week of Slowdive, their first new album ...