SLOWDIVEs Pygmalion is now available on 180g vinyl, featuring pristine audio and artwork that preserves the albums original design. The remastered edition offers improved low-end frequency response, deliver vibrant sound and a luxurious listening experience for fans.

Despite being lumped in with the early 90s shoegazing scene thats inspired the likes of M83, Maps and Serena Maneesh, Slowdive were always a little different to their contemporaries. While Ride and Chapterhouse were wont to immerse their music in an ethereal wall of sound, Slowdive favoured a polite narcotic haze, soothing rather than battering the brain into passive submission.

1995s Pygmalion saw them travel furthest but was also their least commercially successful album partially due to a fierce press backlash against the band, but mainly because label Creation was far more focussed on new signings Oasis. The Manchester bands debut album, Definitely Maybe, bore the next CD catalogue number on from Pygmalion.

Reissued alongside their first two full lengths 1991s dreamy Cocteau Twins-esque Just for a Day and 1993s difficult second, Souvlaki, which hinted at more abstract experimentations sadly reined in by label boss Alan McGee Pygmalion has more in common with the emerging electronic scene than the Britpop sound that was by now sidelining grunge.

Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell had begun to experiment with digital technology, something no doubt encouraged by collaboration with Brian Eno on two of Souvlakis tracks. But rather than claiming as many did in the early 90s that there had always been a dance element to their music, using this as an excuse to awkwardly layer a breakbeat beneath their standard indie fare, Slowdive were more interested in the ambient end of the spectrum: Cello could be an excerpt from one of Enos mid 70s releases like Discreet Music. BBC.

Vinyl, LP, Reissue, 180 Gram

Tracklist:
A1 Rutti 10:05
A2 Crazy For You 6:01
A3 Miranda 4:49
A4 Trellisaze 6:22
B1 Cello 1:42
B2 J’s Heaven 6:47
B3 Visions Of LA 1:48
B4 Blue Skied An’ Clear 6:54
B5 All Of Us 4:07

At the time (Feb, 1995),Pygmalion was under appreciated. Now it’s heralded as a masterpiece – and it is. When Slowdive disbanded in 1995 music fans widely associated it with the demise of the shoegaze genre. Their last sign of life was Pygmalion (before they reunited in 2014) and it was, after Just For A Day and Souvlaki a totally different and more abstract album.

Where the band attempted to put more song structures in place on Souvlaki, they began to incorporate more elements of ambient electronica on Pygmalion. Tracks like Blue Skied An Clear and Crazy For You demonstrate that the songs are still there, somewhere – theyre just buried under more abstract sounds than before

Available on 140g black BIO vinyl & CD

TRACKLISTING
SIDE A
A1. Rutti
A2. Crazy for You
A3. Miranda
A4. Trellisaze
SIDE B
B1. Cello
B2. J’s Heaven
B3. Visions Of LA
B4. Blue Skied An’ Clear
B5. All Of Us