Slowdive

Slowdive are a British rock band that formed in Reading, Berkshire, in 1989. The band consists of Rachel Goswell on vocals, guitar and keyboard, Neil Halstead on vocals and guitar, Christian Savill on guitar, Nick Chaplin on bass guitar, and Simon Scott on drums, all of whom played on the band's debut studio album, Just for a Day (1991). Halstead is the band's primary songwriter.

This article is about the band. For their eponymous album, see Slowdive (album). For their eponymous EP, see Slowdive (EP). For the Siouxsie and the Banshees song, see Slowdive (song).

Slowdive
Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell performing with Slowdive in Leicester, England, 1992
Background information
OriginReading, Berkshire, England
Genres
Years active
  • 1989–1995
  • 2014–present
Labels
Spinoffs
Members
Past members
  • Adrian Sell
  • Neil Carter
  • Ian McCutcheon
Websitewww.slowdiveofficial.com

The band is one of the most prominent within the shoegaze scene, which rose to prominence in the UK during the early 1990s. While the band's second studio album, Souvlaki (1993), received mixed reviews upon release, it has since been recognized as one of the best releases of the 1990s and one of the greatest shoegaze albums of all time. The band broke up soon after the release of their third studio album, Pygmalion, in 1995, having seen Scott, Savill and Chaplin depart the band prior. The remaining members continued under a more folk and country-influenced direction as Mojave 3.

Slowdive reunited in 2014 to play the Primavera Sound festival and released a self-titled studio album in 2017, their first in 22 years. The band's fifth studio album, Everything Is Alive, was released in 2023 and became Slowdive's first top ten album in any country, doing so in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

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