Photo by Parri Thomas

Many have tried, but few have succeeded at coming close to recreating a sensation as close to pure within the cosmic shoegaze orb which Slowdive have inhabited over the last three decades. “kisses”, the first single from the once-again active shoegaze pioneers’ fifth full-length album, everything is alive, needs barely to graze the skins surface to remind you of that. Following their re-entry into space on their eponymous 2017 reunion album, the listen surfaces back to earth and rovers over some of the scene’s modern landscape with their own version on it – effortlessly and natural at that – rich with sweeping dreamscapes, rippling currents, the glister of acoustic guitars, and the mirages of Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell touching lips in the born desert sun. “Well, everything starts anew / Tell mе what you need, what’s right,” they sing. This will do, as it always has, better than most.

Directed by: Noel Paul

Slowdive’s everything is alive will be released September 1st on Dead Oceans.