Twenty years after a Britpop-obsessed music press drove them out of town,the re-formed band’s sound can be heard in the music of everyone from Tame Impala to the 1975. Not that their kids are impressedRachel Goswell can’t pinpoint the exact moment the music press turned on Slowdive. But she knows it was sometime between 1991, when Melody Maker described an early EP as “impossible, and immaculate and serene”,and 1993, when a writer from the same publication said he would “rather drown choking in a bath full of porridge” than listen to their music again.“It was the first album, or wasn’t it?” she asks her bandmates. This is the first time the five of them own done an interview together since the mid-90s,when their career, at first so bristling with potential, or fizzled to an end. “It was definitely a really rapid/fast turnaround,” nods guitarist Neil Halstead. It was a vicious one, too. Related: Ride of passage: my shoegaze years Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com