![]() Next up was “Star Roving,” the first single from Slowdive’s new self-titled record, released this year to significant acclaim. All of this is to say that the two of them still share an undeniable chemistry, though perhaps I was only seeing what I wanted to see. But in fact, the band was dropped from their label following the record’s release, which prompted Halstead, Goswell, and drummer Ian McCutcheron to place Slowdive on indefinite hiatus and form the country-tinged slowcore project Mojave 3. (By that time, Goswell had herself moved on an married Christopher Andrews of the band Air Cuba.) If you didn’t know anything about the critical consensus of Pygmalion at the time (largely, if not overwhelmingly, negative), you may have assumed that Slowdive broke up because of this romantic tension, as I did. In addition, Halstead wrote the near entirety of 1995’s Pygmalion by himself, and in that context, it was a further - perhaps final - step of coming to terms with the relationship’s end. That record was, in a sense, a breakup album. It’s almost an essential part of the Slowdive mythology that Halstead and Goswell famously shared a quite intense, intimate relationship of over four years that came to an end about a year before the release of their magnum opus, 1993’s Souvlaki. Other times it seemed like she was gazing at Halstead quite intently. Goswell in general seems like a rather dreamy person during many of the tracks she would stare off in the distance absentmindedly, with a smile on her brow. It sounded incredible the harmonies between Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell in particular were gorgeous. This was followed by the excellent “Crazy For You,” one of the more conventional tracks on the decidedly unconventional Pygmalion. #SLOMO SLOWDIVE LYRICS FULL#Next was the warm and ethereal “Catch the Breeze,” from their 1991 EP Holding Our Breath, and, later, their debut full length, Just For a Day. For the crowd it, and the band remained loud and invigorated throughout. It’s a statement if I’ve ever heard one - thunderous and passionate, with only a tiny bit of guitar squall, sounding as if it was being slowly ejected from a passing spaceship. The band opened their set with their self-titled track, “Slowdive,” originally released on their first eponymous EP, from 1990. And considering the peculiarities of the oft-discussed “Slowdive sound,” this was an appropriate choice. (Well, maybe Terminal West.) Although Variety Playhouse is a fairly large mid-sized venue, it felt extremely intimate from up front. And while I’m sure they played a fine set on the fest’s outdoor stage, I couldn’t imagine seeing the shoegaze legends anywhere else. But here they were last Thursday, just a year removed from their once unimaginable return, performing to a nearly sold out audience at Variety Playhouse. Before their appearance at the 2016 Shaky Knees Festival, Slowdive hadn’t played Atlanta in over two decades. ![]()
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