Over the past few weeks, our most active record reviewers have had the task of choosing their 5 favorite recordings of 2023, and here they are. This selection is unique and quite different of all you can find on the web or through traditional medias.
Despite the group breaking up twice and taking huge gaps of time between albums, Slowdive knows exactly what to deliver for their fans— a sprawling shoegaze sound they are partly responsible for popularizing. But no one really does it as well as Slowdive. When they are on, they’re on and nothing else matters. The vocal harmonies between Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell are nostalgic and beyond gorgeous. At times, everything is alive, sounds like something from the Souvlaki or Pygmalion eras of the band, but is so expansive and multi-layered that it feels like a piece of pure alchemy. A step up from the self-titled album we got six years ago, everything is alive is a pure experimental fire that was fortunately recorded.
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