SLOWDIVE - Pygmalion LP Noise Rock Bowles’ percussive flares across the

Bowles’ percussive flares across the record lend the folk rock edge to songs like opener “Polly on the Shore” and the neolithic stomp to the jubilant “Sheep Shaped

because Michael Oosten was writing songs that veered away from pop-song structures

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dark night before the feverish “Death Valley ’69

I hope that at least in some small way this music can be a friend to you

SLOWDIVE - Pygmalion LP Noise Rock Bowles’ percussive flares across theWhen Slowdive disbanded in 1995 music fans widely associated it with the demise of the shoegaze genre. Their last sign of life was Pygmalion and it was, after Just For A Day [MOVLP354] and Souvlaki [MOVLP202] a totally different and more abstract album. Where the band attempted to put more song structures in place on Souvlaki, they began to incorporate more elements of ambient electronica on Pygmalion. Which resulted in a more complete album than the