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Will Richards

Slowdive: How Gen Z became obsessed with the 90s shoegaze legends

When Slowdive broke up in 1995, they did so under a cloud of label trouble, critical condemnation and questions over their commercial credentials.

The Reading-based band’s three studio albums of magical, cloudy shoegaze had found fans in niche corners of the guitar music world, but were met with derision further afield. Those disillusioned with the rise of Britpop flocked towards shoegaze’s more thoughtful, insular sound, but the mainstream pushed them aside. 

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