The Shining Breeze: The Slowdive Anthology

Good product

A great collection of some of the band's finest material.

Great music from a very under appreciated band.

having heard a slowdive song on the soundtrack to mysterious skin a few years ago i always wanted to buy their albums but never got round to it,now the shining breeze is a good introduction and i will check out their other albums. ,slowdive's dreamy ambient psychedelia just blows my mind and reminds me of the verve's debut album along with ride and more recent artists like boards of canada.i cant recommend this highly enough. perfect for listening to on cold dark winter nights.

Slowdive were one of the leading protagonists of the Shoegazing scene of the early 1990s. Hailing from Reading their major influences were My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth as well as Pink Floyd and the Beatles producer Phil Spectors wall of sound. The vocals are shared between Rachael Goswell and Neil Halstead and are beautiful as is the music. I'd recommend listening on headphones at night with a glass of wine. If you like this another album I'd recommend is Rides first album Nowhere Nowhere: Remastered .

An excellent album for any fan of indie music, totally laid back, similar to ride or galaxy 500. Slowdive definitely a hidden gem, can't believe i missed them at the time! Cannot fault this collection, absolute bargain!

This compilation gathers the best tracks of Slowdive, the project of Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead. CD1 has guitars to the fore but remains slow-paced, à la Cocteau Twins. Except for the last track, which is reggae-dub influenced. As is the first track of CD2. The rest of CD2 is ambient, proto-Americana (a prelude to The Mojave 3 project that was to follow Slowdive) and pop (the good cover of Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood's classic 'Some Velver Morning'). As such, the whole of the album gives "shoe-gazing" a rather good name. Or, perhaps, it wasn't "shoe-gazing" at all in the first place?

This is a great introduction and overview of the band Slowdive’s musical catalog. Seminal tracks and Singles as well as b-sides that are representative of their incredible output are included giving the listener a good idea about the band’s dreamy shoegaze psychedelic style.

If you love true shoegaze ,melancholy and music that will take you to another zone Slowdive is the band for you ,this is in my opinion the definitive Slowdive collection many songs like So Tired ,Here she comes ,Altogether and Dagger leave you a little choked this is a definitely a musical experience we should all feel .Its a real SLOW DIVE.

of Slowdive's oeuvre for the the curious who haven't heard them before or for those who want all their best work in one tidy package. The price is reasonable for a two disc collection, too.

If you like Slowdive, you'll love this anthology of some of their unreleased songs with their known songs from all of their albums.

Great music, if you like subliminal music this is it...much recommended