Slowdive – Pygmalion (180g Vinyl)
Pygmalion is the third studio album by English rock band Slowdive, released on 6 February 1995 by record label Creation. It was the final Slowdive album to be released before the band disbanded in 1995.
A departure from their previous two albums, Pygmalion incorporated a more experimental sound tilted towards ambient electronic music, with sparse, atmospheric arrangements. All compositions were by Neil Halstead. Lyrics on tracks "Miranda" and "Visions of LA" were by Rachel Goswell.
The cover illustration features imagery from Rainer Wehinger's graphic notation for György Ligeti's work Artikulation (1958).
Pygmalion was well-received by critics. AllMusic called it "a stylistic masterpiece", while BBC Music echoed similar sentiments, writing that Pygmalion "remains Halstead and Goswell's masterpiece" and comparing it to the ambient work of Brian Eno. Head Heritage wrote that with the album, "Slowdive distilled the expansive aural atmospheres of Souvlaki to perfection."
Pitchfork noted the change in style, describing the album's tracks as "ambient pop dreams that have more in common with post-rock like Disco Inferno than shoegazers like Ride".
The song "Blue Skied an' Clear" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 film The Doom Generation.
In 1999, critic Ned Raggett ranked Pygmalion at number 122 on his list of "The Top 136 or So Albums of the Nineties" for Freaky Trigger. In 2016, Pitchfork placed it at number 12 on its list of "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time".
Tracklist
"Crazy For You" 6:01
"Miranda" 4:49
"Trellisaze" 6:22
"Cello" 1:42
"J's Heaven" 6:47
"Visions of La" 1:48
"Blue Skied An' Clear" 6:54
"All of Us" 4:07
Cat no: 8718469531424
Pygmalion is the third studio album by English rock band Slowdive, released on 6 February 1995 by record label Creation. It was the final Slowdive album to be released before the band disbanded in 1995.
A departure from their previous two albums, Pygmalion incorporated a more experimental sound tilted towards ambient electronic music, with sparse, atmospheric arrangements. All compositions were by Neil Halstead. Lyrics on tracks "Miranda" and "Visions of LA" were by Rachel Goswell.
The cover illustration features imagery from Rainer Wehinger's graphic notation for György Ligeti's work Artikulation (1958).
Pygmalion was well-received by critics. AllMusic called it "a stylistic masterpiece", while BBC Music echoed similar sentiments, writing that Pygmalion "remains Halstead and Goswell's masterpiece" and comparing it to the ambient work of Brian Eno. Head Heritage wrote that with the album, "Slowdive distilled the expansive aural atmospheres of Souvlaki to perfection."
Pitchfork noted the change in style, describing the album's tracks as "ambient pop dreams that have more in common with post-rock like Disco Inferno than shoegazers like Ride".
The song "Blue Skied an' Clear" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 film The Doom Generation.
In 1999, critic Ned Raggett ranked Pygmalion at number 122 on his list of "The Top 136 or So Albums of the Nineties" for Freaky Trigger. In 2016, Pitchfork placed it at number 12 on its list of "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time".
Tracklist
"Crazy For You" 6:01
"Miranda" 4:49
"Trellisaze" 6:22
"Cello" 1:42
"J's Heaven" 6:47
"Visions of La" 1:48
"Blue Skied An' Clear" 6:54
"All of Us" 4:07
Cat no: 8718469531424
Pygmalion is the third studio album by English rock band Slowdive, released on 6 February 1995 by record label Creation. It was the final Slowdive album to be released before the band disbanded in 1995.
A departure from their previous two albums, Pygmalion incorporated a more experimental sound tilted towards ambient electronic music, with sparse, atmospheric arrangements. All compositions were by Neil Halstead. Lyrics on tracks "Miranda" and "Visions of LA" were by Rachel Goswell.
The cover illustration features imagery from Rainer Wehinger's graphic notation for György Ligeti's work Artikulation (1958).
Pygmalion was well-received by critics. AllMusic called it "a stylistic masterpiece", while BBC Music echoed similar sentiments, writing that Pygmalion "remains Halstead and Goswell's masterpiece" and comparing it to the ambient work of Brian Eno. Head Heritage wrote that with the album, "Slowdive distilled the expansive aural atmospheres of Souvlaki to perfection."
Pitchfork noted the change in style, describing the album's tracks as "ambient pop dreams that have more in common with post-rock like Disco Inferno than shoegazers like Ride".
The song "Blue Skied an' Clear" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 film The Doom Generation.
In 1999, critic Ned Raggett ranked Pygmalion at number 122 on his list of "The Top 136 or So Albums of the Nineties" for Freaky Trigger. In 2016, Pitchfork placed it at number 12 on its list of "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time".
Tracklist
"Crazy For You" 6:01
"Miranda" 4:49
"Trellisaze" 6:22
"Cello" 1:42
"J's Heaven" 6:47
"Visions of La" 1:48
"Blue Skied An' Clear" 6:54
"All of Us" 4:07
Cat no: 8718469531424
