Slowdive

Souvlaki

Reissue of the second studio album from Slowdive. Originally released in 1993 and following up from their brilliant debut, Souvlaki pushes the band's sound further and it sounds as though they really found their feet with their shoegaze / indie-rock / dream-pop mix.

The album opens with seminal Shoegaze anthem Alison and instantly washes you over with towering waves of swirling guitars. Silken vocals and dreamy distortion are a mainstay of the album; like mixing My Bloody Valentine's Loveless with a pinch of Cocteau Twins, stirring, and then garnishing with a tiwst of Brian Eno (who's ambient input can be heard on Sing and Here She Comes). Souvlaki Space Station is exactly what is says it is, a journey to outer space through cascades of delay, and Dagger is an intimate is a track, seemingly, of heartbreak and serves as a stripped down and poignant end to an otherwise epic album.