Slowdive - Pygmalion (CD) The Chemical Brothers Perhaps inspired by the experimental

Perhaps inspired by the experimental drum'n'bass being created by Squarepusher (a recent signee to his Rephlex label)

The band has never shied away from esoteric subject matter

While their sound alternated between moody and aggressive

creative storytelling

With a relentless rhythm section and lacerating guitars

Slowdive - Pygmalion (CD) The Chemical Brothers Perhaps inspired by the experimentalAt the time (Feb, 1995), Pygmalion was under appreciated. Now it's heralded as a masterpiece and it is. When Slowdive disbanded in 1995 music fans widely associated it with the demise of the shoegaze genre. Their last sign of life was Pygmalion (before they reunited in 2014) and it was, after Just For A Day and Souvlaki a totally different and more abstract album. Where the band attempted to put more song structures in place on Souvlaki, they began to