"This is a detour of the best sort, and a Slowdive album in name only"
8.7
Full of beautifully slow ambience, Pygmalion is Slowdive stripped back to a whisper.
When Slowdive disbanded in 1995 music fans widely associated it with the demise of the shoegaze genre. Their last sign of life was Pygmalion (before they reunited in 2014) and it was, after Just For A Day and Souvlaki a totally different and more abstract album. Where the band attempted to put more song structures in place on Souvlaki, they began to incorporate more elements of ambient electronica on Pygmalion. Tracks like "Blue Skied An' Clear" and "Crazy For You" demonstrate that the songs are still there, somewhere -- they're just buried under more abstract sounds than before.
+ 180 gram audiophile vinyl
+ Insert
+ Jacket with special alubrush finish
+ 25th anniversary edition of 3000 individually numbered copies on clear & green marbled vinyl
1. Rutti
2. Crazy for You
3. Miranda
4. Trellisaze
5. Cello
6. J's Heaven
7. Visions of LA
8. Blue Skied an' Clear
9. All of Us
+ 180 gram audiophile vinyl
+ Insert
+ Jacket with special alubrush finish
+ 25th anniversary edition of 3000 individually numbered copies on clear & green marbled vinyl
1. Rutti
2. Crazy for You
3. Miranda
4. Trellisaze
5. Cello
6. J's Heaven
7. Visions of LA
8. Blue Skied an' Clear
9. All of Us
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Nominated 'Best Independent Retailer' at the Music Week Awards in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
Nominated "Indie Champions" at the 2015 AIM Awards.