Slowdive

Slowdive
Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell performing with Slowdive in Leicester, England, 1992
Background information
Origin	Reading, Berkshire, England
Genres	Shoegaze dream pop ambient
Years active	1989–1995 2014–present
Labels	Creation SBK Dead Oceans
Spinoffs	Mojave 3 Monster Movie
Members	Rachel Goswell Neil Halstead Nick Chaplin Christian Savill Simon Scott
Past members	Adrian Sell Neil Carter Ian McCutcheon
Website	www.slowdiveofficial.com

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

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 shoegaze albums.^[1][2][3] 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.