Monday, July 15, 2013

Alison - Slowdive

From 1993.  This album (Souvlaki) is rated the 2nd greatest slowdive album in that list I posted previously. The bottom end here is slow and thick with the SG atmosphere.  The vocal line is depressoid, with a male lead (Neil Halstead) but at least some of the vocal is female (Rachel Goswell). This kind of vocal combination is fairly common and SG (e.g. My Bloody Valentine and the Pale Saints, to name just a couple other examples). The vocals definitely feed into the "ethereal" atmosphere. I really liked listening to this sound on college radio in the 90s.

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