“The shoegaze pioneers find a new frontier on their fifth studio album”
“exquisite songs from the comeback kids of shoegaze”
“Everything Is Alive rambles farther into Slowdive’s catchy, lulling, and mystical sphere”
“Everything Is Alive may only be the fifth Slowdive album in 30 years – and their second since reforming in 2014 – but it feels for all the world like a statement of shoegaze lore in the lineage of the many brilliant deviations and dream-pop subgenres that have ensued since Creation released Just For A Day in 1991. It’s another new bible for future bands to deviate from. Conceived as a departure f”
“Since forming over three decades ago, the UK shoegaze band’s fifth album is the first to shoulder the weight of those years. The music is wispier, more skeletal, attuned to and aware of fading glories.”
