Slowdive - missing you, 1993

"Despite its members’ youthfulness – averaging 19 years of age when they signed to Creation Records in 1990 – Slowdive arrived late to the scene eventually referred to derisively in the British music press as shoegaze. In many ways, the five-piece outfit was victims of circumstance. Following the excesses of My Bloody Valentine’s monumental Loveless (1991), which nearly bankrupted Creation, perceptions of the still-nascent genre turned a corner and initial champions turned their backs on the mop-topped gloom rockers. As part of Creation’s stable of early ‘90s dream-poppers, Slowdive managed only two LPs and a handful of EPs as a full band before the critical pushback against shoegaze and fickle fans effectively killed any chances at longevity."

Club 8 - missing you, 1998

 

"Some of the records below have had a big influence on me as a person, some of them have influenced our music a lot and I think it’s quite easy to guess which ones.

• The Field Mice: Coastal
• Blueboy: If wishes were horses
• The Smiths: The Smiths
• The Radio Dept: Lesser matters
• Felt: Poem of the river
• Leonard Cohen: Songs
• Television Personalities: Far away and lost in joy
• The Sea Urchins: Stardust
• Ingenting: Mycket vasen for ingenting
• Mazzy Star: Among my swan"