Souvlaki!
Slowdive - Souvlaki - Pitchfork Classic
Very nice doc on Slowdive’s Souvlaki, an album for which words like “ethereal”, “shimmering”, and “achingly-sad” were invented.
What are you guys listening to?
Glyph
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I prefer Pygmalion. I found Souvlaki sort of a disappointment.
I’ve been meaning to get the new Calexico album and rebuy some INXS since the wife and i spent a couple hours listening to a bunch of 80’s tunes recently.Report
Wow…I like Pygmalion, but it doesn’t even sound much like the same band. Pygmalion is kind of…abstract/cold, I guess? It sounds more like one of the British “post-rock” records, like Hex by Bark Psychosis, or one of the later Talk Talk albums to me.Report
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The new Calexico is quite good, if you haven’t heard it all ready.Report
I never loved Slowdive, or really paid any attention to them, but I love watching a band being allowed to tell a leisurely story about how they started, what they meant to do, and how it felt to do it.Report
In some ways this doc follows a bit of the standard “Behind the Music” structure, where you have the rise, the interpersonal conflict/interband romantic turbulence, the falloff, and then the belated appreciation or legacy and adult acceptance.
But I still thought it was well-done, and their style of music, as dreamy and nostalgic as it is, fits that type of storytelling really well.Report