“everything is alive is meant to be joyous and inspiring; its singles, ‘skin in the game’ and ‘kisses,’ are hypnotically gorgeous.” — New York Magazine

"This is perfect music for the summer’s end, an album to be experienced under a thick blanket while watching the sun disappear behind the trees." - Wall Street Journal

“[everything is alive] is the antithesis of rigid, as it builds aglow and unravels like silk. Isn’t it a funny thing, how the experiments that once ostracized a band from critical spheres can now take a full, cohesive and dynamite shape on their best album yet?”— Paste

"everything is alive picks up where Slowdive left off, and turns the shoegaze conversation under a new light: They use this music not as numb escape, but a conduit for wonder.” — Stereogum

This Friday, Slowdive will release their highly anticipated new album, everything is alive, via Dead Oceans. Today, the shoegaze legends present its final single/video, “alife,” unveil a major European (on sale Wed. Sept 6th at 10am local time here) and announce a slew of early listening events across North America. On the “infectious, gorgeous” (Stereogum) “alife,” Rachel Goswell’s voice is drenched in reverb and longing as she sings, “Two lives are hard lives with you,” complementing the vocal delivery of Neil Halstead throughout. Paste describes it in their new Cover Story as “Goswell’s (likely) greatest harmony performance in 30 years.” 

Of “alife,” Halstead adds: “‘alife’ is one of the first tunes we finished for the record. Shawn Everett did a really nice job with the mix. We tried so many times to figure out a good mix by ourselves and couldn’t do it . . . it sort of had us beaten until Shawn stepped in. We decided if he could handle that one he could probably do the whole record. Our friend Jake Nelson did a really nice animation for this song; it takes some of the imagery from the artwork and digs a little deeper into that."

30.08.2023