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Slowdive Creation Records Post Rock Ethereal Ambient 1995

Performer: Slowdive
Album: Pygmalion
Label: Creation Records
Catalog #: crecd 168, CRECD 168
MP3: 1383 mb | FLAC: 2585 mb
Released: 06 Feb 1995
Country: UK
Style: Post Rock, Ethereal, Ambient
Rating: 4.5/5
Votes: 430
Category: Electronic / Rock

Tracklist

1	Miranda	4:49
2	Trellisaze	6:22
3	Crazy For You	6:01
4	All Of Us	4:07
5	Blue Skied An' Clear	6:54
6	Cello	1:42
7	Visions Of La	1:48
8	Rutti	10:05
9	J's Heaven	6:47

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
crelp 168, CRELP 168	Slowdive	Pygmalion ‎(LP, Album)	Creation Records, Creation Records	crelp 168, CRELP 168	UK	1995
CDBRED463, CDBRED 463	Slowdive	Pygmalion ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM + CD, Comp, RM)	Cherry Red, Cherry Red	CDBRED463, CDBRED 463	UK	2010
crelp 168	Slowdive	Pygmalion ‎(2xLP, Album, RE, Unofficial)	Creation Records	crelp 168	UK	Unknown
MOVLP604	Slowdive	Pygmalion ‎(LP, Album, RE, 180)	Music On Vinyl	MOVLP604	Europe	2012
19075902501	Slowdive	Pygmalion ‎(LP, Album, Club, Ltd, Num, RE, RM, Whi)	Sony Music Commercial Music Group	19075902501	US	2018

Credits

Cello [Cellos] – Spike
Composed By [All Compositions By] – N Halstead
Cover [Cover Illustration], Illustration [Cover Illustration] – Steven Woodhouse
Engineer, Producer – Chris Hufford, Slowdive
Lyrics By – R Goswell (tracks: 3, 7)
Performer – Christian Savill, Ian McCutcheon, Neil Halstead, Nick Chaplin, Rachel Goswell

Notes

Back Cover:
crecd 168
℗ & © Creation Records Limited 1995
Distributed by Pinnacle
Made in England

Spine:
crecd 168
A Creation Records product

CD:
CRECD 168
℗ & © Creation Records Limited 1995.
Distributed by Pinnacle.
Made in England

Inner Panel:
Thanks to Spike for cellos.
Recorded at Courtyard Studio, Sutton Courtney, Nr Abingdon.
Published by EMI Music Ltd.

Barcodes

Barcode (Text): 5 017556 601686 >
Barcode (String): 5017556601686
Matrix / Runout: DAMONT CRECD 168 CDM01

Companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Creation Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Creation Records Ltd.
Distributed By – Pinnacle
Recorded At – Courtyard Studio
Published By – EMI Music Ltd.
Glass Mastered At – Damont

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Samardenob

While I've always been a fan of Slowdive, I've always found it curious they / Neil Halstead has been so widely cited & praised as inspirational (especially to Morr Music artists) when it's always been in my opinion his music has never surpassed that which seems to have inspired it. Slowdive, while not sounding like Cocteau Twins exactly were clearly hughely inspired by them. This album seems almost an obvious descendent of Bark Psychosis' "Hex" and Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock" (more so than "Spirit of Eden") and Halstead's solo stuff is watered down Nick Drake. At least he's got excellent taste, and it's beautiful music, but I don't find much originality. Maybe that was never the point.

Voodoogore

"Halstead's solo stuff is watered down Nick Drake."You know, I recently returned to this old favorite of mine (though I find in "Souvlaki" their magnum opus) and I have to agree. Where it succeeds is at being shoegazey ("Blue Skied An' Clear" comes to mind) -- even relatively inspired minimal art-folk cuts like "Visions of La" are, yes, watered down, pared down to the point that they seem like Nick Drake (with but, in this case, Rachel Goswell on vocals.) The Slowdive we all expected when we finally snatched copies of this back in the day was precisely that Slowdive we were denied -- apart from "Crazy for You" and the already cited "Blue Skied An' Clear" we don't feel like we know this Neil Halstead. The Sundays and Halou shimmer as well as sing acapella; without the salutary cymbal-like drone of shoegaze, this is really old terrain, sonically speaking.

Kabei

Barely noticed at the time of its release, this final record by Slowdive became a template for many bands after mid 90-s. While it wasn't very rare for "shoegazer" bands to use elements of ambient, Slowdive probably went further than most of like-minded outfits and created a complete experimental/ambient record. Opening track "Rutti" is full of silent pauses and sets the tone for the rest of the record - there are feelings of emptiness and solitude expressed with extreme accuracy.

Bearus

I love this album but Rutti literally just sampled underworlds tongue guitar part .. listen to tongue by underworld and then compare it- when I mixed the two songs together via an audio program it matched perfectly

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