{"id":12846,"date":"2017-06-14T05:45:44","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T09:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=12846"},"modified":"2017-06-14T08:53:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T12:53:33","slug":"album-mini-review-slowdive-slowdive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/14\/album-mini-review-slowdive-slowdive\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Slowdive &#8212; Slowdive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12847\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/slowdive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/slowdive.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/slowdive-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/slowdive-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>File next to: Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine<\/p>\n<p>How much difference does 22 years make? That will be most listeners&#8217; first question upon learning that shoegaze heroes Slowdive have released their fourth (and self-titled) album, their first since 1995&#8217;s <i>Pygmalion<\/i>. (Two of the band&#8217;s founding members did remain busy in the intervening years with Mojave 3; that group released 5 albums.) Though the British quintet came together in the post-punk era, they have always displayed the influence of mid-period Pink Floyd (in the form of stately, glacially-paced compositions) more than of punk-era acts like Siouxsie and the Banshees. And beneath the gauzy arrangements are often simple yet catchy melodies. If Mojave 3 was a detour into more pop-leaning styles, <i>Slowdive<\/i> is a return to form. Even the song titles make that clear: the opening tune is \u201cSlomo.\u201d And that provides a simple answer to the opening question: not very much at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine How much difference does 22 years make? That will be most listeners&#8217; first question upon learning that shoegaze heroes Slowdive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65,67],"tags":[3069],"class_list":["post-12846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","category-shoegaze","tag-slowdive","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","cat-67-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12848,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions\/12848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}