Slowdive have confirmed that they’ve completed their new album, which can be their first in over half a decade.
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Initially of 2022, the shoegaze icons confirmed that they have been engaged on their first new album since 2017’s self-titled effort.
Now, the band’s Neil Halstead revealed that the brand new album is full throughout a latest look on the SixPack podcast.
He mentioned: “Among the stuff I purchased in was very digital based mostly, as a result of that’s the place I’m coming from generally. After which it should work its means again to being an indie, guitar factor. We find yourself assembly in a spot the place everyone seems to be completely satisfied.”
Hearken to the podcast episode under.
In 2014, the band introduced they’d be reforming to carry out at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound, following the efficiency up with their first London present in 20 years.
Two years later, they introduced they have been engaged on a brand new album, the primary since their 1995 file ‘Pygmalion’. Following a cryptic teaser video and single ‘Star Roving’, the band launched their self-titled album in 2017, their first in 22 years.
Again in 2020, they shared a sequence of photographs from within the studio, captioning them with the hashtag “#slowdivelp5”.
In 2021, members of Slowdive – alongside musicians from The Flaming Lips, The Delicate Cavalry and Casket Women – joined forces to kind a brand new band, Beachy Head.
Beachy Head includes Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell and Christian Savill, Flaming Lips drummer Matt Duckworth, Ryan Graveface (Casket Women, Dreamend) and Steve Clarke (The Delicate Cavalry). The group’s self-titled debut album was launched in April of that 12 months by means of Graveface’s eponymous file label.
