Slowdive formed in Reading, England, out of the ashes of indie act Pumpkin Fairies, with childhood friends Rachel Goswell and Neil Halstead refashioning their aesthetic around a common passion for both classic rock and the dreamier side of the 1980s. Enlisting the support of third guitarist Christian Savill, bassist Nick Chaplin and percussionist Simon Scott, the pair of vocalists/guitarists envisioned a distortion-heavy sound that drew from a range of influences, including Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Cocteau Twins, The Jesus And Mary Chain and The Cure.
The band name itself is inspired by the Siouxsie And The Banshees’ single “Slowdive”—a moniker all the more apt when you consider its opening line “Get your head down to the ground” (Ah, the paradox of shoegaze, to shuffle downward and conjure the heavens). Clearly, this was a band that owned its sound from the beginning.
From start to finish, Just For A Day just utterly glows, the aural atmosphere of Just For A Day is constantly scintillating, building and bursting with sonic energy in incessant crescendoing wah-wah bliss. Although Slowdive isn’t generally a band you’d hear on commercial radio.
The album opened with "Spanish Air" it was an euphoric and melancholic tune, with waltzing drums and sweeping guitars wrap around a wistful chorus, the lyrics had a pensive poetry and a romantic instrumentation. "Celia's Dream," was the second track, it glistened, a floaty, diaphanous veil masking the deep pain hinted at in the album's title with a trademark tune that what would become classic Slowdive form, the pedals ripple here, encircling welling heartache in ever-swelling sonic haloes that elicit every tucked-away emotion, then you have the magnificent "Catch The Breeze" the sole single of the album, "Waves" was another remarkable tune fulled with introspectiva questions, quite long nearly six minutes of ssufocative sadness, the album definitely offered a noisier and a quite more experimental tunes that followed.
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