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Slowdive
Studio album by Slowdive
Released	5 May 2017 (2017-05-05)
Studio	Courtyard (Sutton Courtenay) Sound Gallery (Exeter) The White House (Kewstoke) The Farm 2 (St Merryn) Zigzag (Hilton)
Genre	Shoegaze dream pop
Length	46:01
Label	Dead Oceans
Producer	Neil Halstead
Slowdive chronology
Catch the Breeze (2004) Slowdive (2017) Everything Is Alive (2023)
Singles from Slowdive
"Star Roving" Released: 12 January 2017 "Sugar for the Pill" Released: 28 March 2017

Slowdive is the fourth studio album by English rock band Slowdive. It was released on 5 May 2017 by the record label Dead Oceans. It was Slowdive's first studio album in 22 years, following Pygmalion (1995). It was also the band's first album since Souvlaki (1993) to feature the drummer Simon Scott as a member.

Slowdive was preceded by the singles "Star Roving", released on 12 January 2017, and "Sugar for the Pill", released on 28 March 2017.

The album artwork is a still image from avant-garde cut-out animation film, Heaven and Earth Magic (1962), by beatnik artist and polymath Harry Smith.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	8.1/10
Metacritic	82/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The A.V. Club	B
Consequence	A−
Financial Times
The Guardian
Mojo
The Observer
Pitchfork	8.6/10
The Times
Uncut	8/10

Slowdive received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 82, based on 30 reviews.

TJ Kliebhan of Consequence found that Slowdive had "delivered a fresh dream-pop sound that is still uniquely Slowdive", concluding that "Slowdive delivers nearly everything their fans desire in a return: familiarity, innovation, and vast atmospheres to get lost in." The Skinny's Duncan Harman said that the album "represents an awareness of legacy, and the importance of not pissing all over it; to that extent, it's an essential addition to canon." Drowned in Sound reviewer Dom Gourlay called Slowdive a "majestic return that doesn't just fill in the gaps, but points unflinchingly towards future horizons." Sean T. Collins of Pitchfork said that the album "offers maximum-volume shoegaze too, better than the band ever has before", and Cam Lindsay of Exclaim! wrote that it "certainly was a long wait, but finally Slowdive have given us the album that we have been dreaming about for the last 22 years."

Accolades

Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Slowdive

• Neil Halstead – vocals, guitars, keyboards, editing, production
• Rachel Goswell – vocals
• Christian Savill – guitars
• Nick Chaplin – bass guitar
• Simon Scott – drums, guitar, electronics

Additional personnel

• Ian Davenport – engineering
• Duncan Chave – additional engineering
• Martin Nichols – additional engineering
• Gareth Stuart – additional engineering
• Steve Clarke – additional vocal engineering
• Chris Coady – mixing
• Sarah Tudzin – mixing (assistant)
• Heba Kadry – mastering
• Josh Bonati – vinyl cut
• Harry Smith – cover art (from Heaven and Earth Magic)
• Ingrid Pop – inner sleeve photography, art direction

Charts

References

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External links

• Slowdive at Discogs (list of releases)
• Slowdive at MusicBrainz (list of releases)

• 2017 albums
• Albums produced by Neil Halstead
• Slowdive albums
• Dead Oceans albums
• Libera Award for Record of the Year