Slowdive - Pygmalion

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Almost painfully slow and sparse, "Rutti"**** slowly settles in layer by pillowy layer, the soundtrack to floating. "Crazy For You" centers around a repeated super-delayed vocal line and a wall of sound, "Miranda" a swirling female vocals and a single acoustic guitar. "Trellisaze" has a similar formula, except dissonant and filled with snippets of noise. "J's Heaven" is similarly eastern sounding, but fuller and smoother. "Blue Skied An Clear" is the closest to having an actual song structure, with an actual verse and chorus rather than a single repeated line, but neither demands attention. Appropriately, "All Of Us" plays like a quiet elegy. The overall product is songs that are easy to ignore and play in the background, which will still be enjoyable as they are very pretty.

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