Slowdive - Slowdive (CD) 01/12 It is not an exercise

It is not an exercise in assimilation

but they never did get back to the raw elemental power that they displayed on Yellow House

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Slowdive - Slowdive (CD) 01/12 It is not an exerciseDeftly swerving what co vocalist guitarist Rachel Goswell terms a trip down memory lane, the eight tracks of 2017's Slowdive are simultaneously expansive and the shoegaze pioneers' most direct material to date. Birthed at the bands talismanic Oxfordshire haunt The Courtyard It felt like home, enthuses guitarist Christian Savill their diamantine melodies were mixed to a suitably hypnotic sheen at Los Angeles famed Sunset Sound facility by Chris Coady