Slowdive: Everything Is Alive (CD) J.J. Cale Temperance

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acting as a successful marriage of the hard rock from their second album with the folkier meanderings of their third

Beetles is the sound of a boy frying bugs on the sidewalk with a magnifying glass

Stokes commands a vocal range that spans from the brash confidence of Joan Jett to the disarming vulnerability of Jenny Lewis

who had left The Band when

Slowdive: Everything Is Alive (CD) J.J. Cale TemperanceEverything Is Alive, Slowdives 5th record, is exactly what the title suggests: an exploration into the shimmering nature of life and the universal touch points within it. While there are parts of this record that could sit neatly next to the atmospheric quality of 1995s Pygmalion; Everything Is Alive also manages to break down the boundaries of whats come before it. Spanning psychedelic soundscapes, pulsating 80s electronic elements and John Cale