Slowdive Announce First New Album in 22 Years, Share “Sugar for the Pill” Video: Watch
Earlier this year, Slowdive returned with their first new song in 22 years, “Star Roving.” Today, they’ve announced their new album. Slowdive, the follow-up to 1995’s Pygmalion, is out May 5 via Dead Oceans. They have also shared a video for a new song, “Sugar for the Pill.” The clip, produced by in/out, is inspired by the Slowdive album art, which is a still from Harry Smith’s avant-garde 1957 film Heaven and Earth Magic. Find the video, album art, and tracklist below, along with the band’s upcoming tour dates. Additionally, Slowdive have announced a surprise performance at The Garage in London. They will will live stream the show on Facebook tomorrow (March 29) at 4 p.m. Eastern time.
Slowdive was recorded at the Courtyard in Oxfordshire and mixed at Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound by Chris Coady. In a press statement, the band’s principal songwriter, Neil Halstead, says, “When you’re in a band and you do three records, there’s a continuous flow and a development. For us, that flow re-started with us playing live again and that has continued into the record.”
Slowdive reunited for a 2014 tour (which including an appearance at Pitchfork Music Festival), and have been working on new material since. Speculation arose about a possible return for the band when they posted a mysterious teaser video early this year. When they released “Star Roving,” Halstead teased that it was “part of a bunch of new tracks.”
Slowdive:
01 Slomo
02 Star Roving
03 Don’t Know Why
04 Sugar for the Pill
05 Everyone Knows
06 No Longer Making Times
07 Go Get It
08 Falling Ashes
Slowdive:
03-28 Liverpool, England – Art Club
03-29 London, England – The Garage
03-30 Bristol, England – The Fleece
03-31 The Hague, Netherlands – Rewire Festival
04-02 Paris, France – Trabendo
04-03 Berlin, Germany – Festsaal
04-30 Fort Worth, TX – Fortress Festival
05-02 St. Paul, MN – Palace Theater *
05-03 Chicago, IL – Vic Theater *
05-05 Toronto, Ontario – Danforth Music Hall *
05-06 Montreal, Quebec – L’Olympia
05-07 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club *
05-08 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel *
05-09 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel *
05-10 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
05-11 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
05-13 Santiago, Chile – Fauna Otono
05-14 São Paulo, Brazil – Balaclava Fest
06-02 London, England – O2 Academy
06-03 London, England – Field Day 2017 @ Victoria Park
06-16-18 Mannheim, Germany – Maifeld Derby
07-07 Madrid, Spain – Mad Cool Festival
07-21-23 Los Angeles, CA – FYF Fest
08-31 Salisbury, England – End of the Road Festival
* with Japanese Breakfast
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