everything is alive (豆瓣)

又名: 美国人觉得英国团体的专辑名不行
表演者: Slowdive
流派: 摇滚
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: 数字(Digital)
发行时间: 2023-09-01
出版者: Slowdive
唱片数: 1

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7.5

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简介 · · · · · ·

　　The fifth album from shoegaze giants Slowdive contains the duality of a familiar internal language mixed with the exaltation of new beginnings. everything is alive is transportive, searching and aglow, the work of a classic band continuing to pitch its unmistakable voice to the future. Six years after the group’s monumental self-titled album, everything is alive finds Slowdiv... (展开全部) 　　The fifth album from shoegaze giants Slowdive contains the duality of a familiar internal language mixed with the exaltation of new beginnings. everything is alive is transportive, searching and aglow, the work of a classic band continuing to pitch its unmistakable voice to the future. Six years after the group’s monumental self-titled album, everything is alive finds Slowdive—vocalists and guitarists Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead, guitarist Christian Savill, bassist Nick Chaplin, and drummer Simon Scott—locating evermore contours of its immersive, elemental sound.
　　The new record began with Halstead in the role of writer and producer, working on demos at home. Experimenting with modular synths, Halstead originally conceived of everything is alive as a “more minimal electronic record.” Slowdive’s collective decision-making ultimately drew the group back towards their signature reverb-drenched guitars, but that first concept seeped into the compositions. “As a band, when we’re all happy with it, that tends to be the stronger material,” Halstead says. “We’ve always come from slightly different directions, and the best bits are where we all meet in the middle.” The convergence of five unique characters has made the sound. “Slowdive is very much the sum of its parts,” Goswell adds. “Something unquantifiable happens when the five of us come together in a room.”
　　The group’s projected studio sessions for everything is alive, in April 2020, were naturally scrapped, and when the group finally did meet up, six months later, at Courtyard Studio, where they’ve historically recorded, the mood was jubilant. (Finally, they had a proper reason to leave the house.) That was the beginning of a multi-year recording process, which moved from Oxfordshire and into the Wolds of Lincolnshire and back to Neil’s own Cornish studio before extending into February 2022, when the band brought in mixer Shawn Everett (The War On Drugs, SZA, Alvvays) to mix six of the record’s eight tracks.
　　Owing to their deep history, there’s a palpable familial energy to Slowdive in 2023. everything is alive is dedicated to Goswell’s mother and Scott’s father, who both died in 2020. “There were some profound shifts for some of us personally,” Goswell says. Those crossroads are reflected in the many-layered emotional tenor of Slowdive’s music; everything is alive is heavy with experience, but each note is poised, wise, and necessarily pitched to hope. Its unique alchemy subtly embodies both sadness and gratitude, groundedness and uplift. Reflecting on “kisses,” which may be Slowdive’s surest pop moment yet, Halstead said, “It wouldn’t feel right to make a really dark record right now. The album is quite eclectic emotionally, but it does feel hopeful.”
　　everything is alive, is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it. Spanning psychedelic soundscapes, pulsating 80’s electronic elements and John Cale inspired journeys, the album lands immediately as something made for the future; which figures, as their fanbase has grown younger and younger as time has gone on, and their influence on forward thinking musical artists continues to prevail.
　　For a genre that is often thought of as divisive, and often warrants introspection, here Slowdive show their craft as the masters of it by pushing it outwards, beyond the singular; the end result being a record which feels as emotional and cathartic as it is optimistic.
　　credits
　　releases September 1, 2023
　　Recorded at The Courtyard Studio in Sutton Courtenay, The Farm 2 in St Merryn, Cornwall and Chapel Studios in South Thoresby
　　Engineered by - Courtyard sessions engineered by Ian Davenport
　　Chapel Studio session engineered by Pieter Rietkerk
　　Mixed by -
　　Tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 mixed by Shawn Everett at Subtle Mcnugget studios
　　Tracks 1 and 7 mixed by Neil Halstead
　　Produced by Neil Halstead
　　Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC
　　Vinyl Cut by Chris Muth at Taloowa
　　Art Direction by Nick Scott
　　Artwork Sourced by Ingrid Pop
　　PERFORMER LINE-UP:
　　Vocals by Rachel Goswell
　　Guitars by Christian Savill
　　Bass guitar by Nick Chaplin
　　Drums and electronics by Simon Scott
　　Guitars, keys, protools and vocals by Neil Halstead

曲目 · · · · · ·

shanty
prayer remembered
alife
andalucia plays
kisses 03:57
skin in the game 03:52
chained to a cloud
the slab

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88/100 六年。灵感是对20年以来逝世的人物的怀念。全专Dream Pop为主，intro/outro为shoegaze. 全专约40min出头。 Slowdive重组前后是极为有必要区分为两个团的。硬件发展、创作心境、背景、逻辑、成员关系，都泾渭分明。不似MBV换了声响没改思路，Ride换了思路等于没换。并... (展开)

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Holocene 2023-09-07 20:32:37

Pitchfork评测Slowdive新专everything is life

Since forming over three decades ago, the UK shoegaze band’s fifth album is the first to shoulder the weight of those years. The music is wispier, more skeletal, attuned to and aware of fading glories. 自三十多年前成立以来，这支英国shoegaze乐队的第五张专辑... (展开)

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