Here’s some A/B comparison testing. Here’s Planet Cell covering Slowdive’s cover of Syd Barrett’s “Golden Hair”:
It’s pretty good…up until the end, when it becomes a sort of strident mess.
By contrast, this live version of Slowdive doing the piece themselves at the Best Kept Secret festival (which I’ve posted here before) just takes it to an entirely new level at the end, all the parts of the band meshing together for a soaring climax.
I have no idea who Kuuhaku Marinus is, though he seems to reside in Mexico and his ideogram (空白磨理成) seems to translate as “Blank Grid.”
Here’s a pleasant cover of Slowdive’s “Machine Gun”:
Enjoy yet another cover of Slowdive’s Catch The Breeze, this one from Canadian shoegazer outfit The City Gates with guest Krissy Vanderwoude:
This is off an all-digital compilation homage of Slowdive covers called Just For A Life, which I’ll have to listen to more of…
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Someone took a lot of obscure/unreleased Slowdive songs, put them together and made them even more echoey/dreamy.
Another Rachel Goswell side project. Really more Shoegaze tinged retro ambient lounge, maybe somewhere between Malory and Echodrone at their softest.
When in doubt, post a Slowdive cover…
Slowdive put on a great show at Stubb’s on April 28. One of the surprising things about it was how much of a rocker “No Longer Making Time” is live. There doesn’t appear to be a good video of that available online, so here’s a pretty good version from their Asheville, NC on November 17, 2017.
Note: There’s a little glitch at the end, where it looks like the person recording the video forgot there’s a little coda at the end of the song and turned their cell phone video off for a few seconds…
In celebration of Slowdive playing Austin next week, here’s a four song live set including:
The Sunday dose of Shoegaze got put aside while I was doing my taxes, but now that’s done, I hope to catch up on a few things.
Yeah, another live Slowdive song. I’ve been busy with a new dog, so I haven’t had a chance to go trawling for new shoegaze bands.
Hat tip to Andrew Wimsatt for alerting me to this.
I’ve been on a Slowdive kick since I heard the new album has coming out, and it way exceeded my expectations for it.
Here’s a live performance for Pitchfork that features both new and old songs, including “Slomo,” “Catch the Breeze” “Slowdive,” “Star Roving” and “Avalyn.” For some reason the music doesn’t actually start until 7:15 into the video.