Slowdive: "Pygmalion" LP sync. large-format photographs

large-format photographs

most especially sound and vibration

One thing the album has in common with later Bass Communion music is that hardly any electronic sources are used

these assorted protagonists ask the people of the Antilles for Mutabor dance-tokens and send postcards to Moondog in Germany

fortifying each other into a zone where ordinary musical standards become irrelevant as an indicator of quality

Slowdive: "Pygmalion" LP sync. large-format photographsPygmalion is an anomaly in the shoegaze world not of the lush dream pop sound that Slowdive were associated with in their earliest years; not of the harsh density My Bloody Valentine were famous for, or as accessible Rides style was prior to their full on excursion into mediocre britpop. Resulting from the exit of drummer Simon Scott, Pygmalion marked the definite end of Slowdive as we once knew them for nearly two decades, yet in their swan song,