everything is alive by Slowdive

Everything Is Alive, Slowdive's fifth studio album, came out on Dead Oceans on 1 September 2023, six years after the self-titled record that announced their return. It's only their second since the Reading shoegazers reunited in 2014, and the five who made the early records are all still here: Neil Halstead, the main songwriter, and Rachel Goswell sharing those hushed, intertwined vocals, Christian Savill on guitar, Nick Chaplin on bass and Simon Scott on drums and electronics.

The sound is still a slow-motion bloom of reverb and chiming guitar, but it glows warmer and more direct than the old fog, and "Kisses" is a shimmering daydream with a hook you can actually hum. The critics adored it and the public followed: it gave Slowdive their first top-ten album anywhere, landing there in the UK, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and New Zealand.

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