Slowdive
Souvlaki

THE REVIEW

But how can one review Luca Dirisio and ignore this masterpiece? Well, let's begin.

The Slowdive were born in Reading (England) in the second half of the 80s, led by the two barely adult leaders Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell. Their first demos, "Slowdive", "Morningrise", and "Holding our breath" came out in the early 90s, highlighting a great maturity in the songwriting of the two youngsters, close to psychedelia and dream pop.

Their first work, "Just for a day", allowed them to emerge from anonymity and, alongside groups like My Bloody Valentine, Ride, and others more or less known, form the Shoegazer movement, a sort of evolution of the Noisy pop of the legendary Jesus & Mary Chain, less raw, more reflective and dreamy, reverbs not necessarily distorted. These splendid sounds even managed to attract Mr. Brian Eno, who decided to participate in the sessions of the next "Souvlaki", in my opinion an absolute masterpiece, a cut above the first and the subsequent "Pygmalion". The Slowdive reincarnate the more pop soul of the movement, and the extraordinary triad that opens the dance is proof of it. The track "Machine gun" stands out, where Rachel's angelic voice takes us to a special world, the world of dreams. Pieces like this or the almost title-track "Souvlaki Space Station", entirely instrumental, are journeys into infinity, ideal for a step back into memories we like to relive in our minds, soundtracks of the hypothetical film of our lives.

Melancholy reigns in "When the sun hits", a piece that starts softly and then explodes in the chorus but without harm, with those layers of guitars and keyboards and a lyric about love, so sweet and simple:

"Sweet thing, I watch you
Burn so fast it scares me
You burn so fast it scares me
mind games don't leave/lose me
I've come so far don't lose me

It matters where you are
As the sun hits, she'll be waiting
With her cool things and