Song:Alison
Album:Original Album Classics
The British band Slowdive had modest success at home. Attempts to sell them in North America were aborted when they split up in 1995. They have reformed in recent years. Slowdive are from Reading, England. Neil Halstead was the main songwriter. He and Rachel Goswell sing and play guitar. They were childhood friends. They had a band called The Pumpkin Fairies. When that band split up, they formed Slowdive with drummer Adrian Sell, bassist Nick Chaplin and guitarist Christian Savill. They are named after a Siouxie and the Banshees single. They sent out demos and signed with Creation Records in 1999. Sell decided to go to university. He was replaced by Neil Carter for the 1990 EP Slowdive. And then he was replaced by Simon Scott after his band The Charlottes split up. Slowdive toured with labelmate My Bloody Valentine, a band they were frequently compared to. Their debut album Just For A Day was released in 1991. It was released in the US by Capitol's SBK label and they did play in the US. When Creation rejected recordings for a second album, Halstead asked Brian Eno to produce them. He helped them in the studio and two songs came from it. Alison is from the 1993 album Souvlaki. It did OK but they were criticized for having an outdated sound. And they were having problems with SBK. Scott was replaced by ian McCutcheon for the 1995 album Pygmalion. Slowdive split up after Creation dropped them. Creation is now distributed by Sony who have released all three Slowdive albums in a box set. Halstead and Goswell formed a new band Mojave 3 and they signed with 4AD. Both also released solo albums on that label. Mojave 3 went on hiatus and Slowdive reformed in 2014. And after touring, they released an album in 2017. They are currently touring. Here's the video for Alison by Slowdive. There were two videos for this. This is the original British video that is posted on Slowdive's Vevo account.
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