Souvlaki

Though not as big and swirling as Just for a Day, there's more of an attempt to put advanced song structure and melody in place rather than just craft infinitely appealing, occasionally thunderous mood music. Everything is simplified, as if Brian Eno's presence on two songs -- he contributes keyboards and treatments and co-wrote one tune after turning down the band's invitation to produce -- hammered home the better aspects of "ambient" music. This is no Music for Airports though. On the opening "Alison," the largely uplifting "When the Sun Hits," and the darkly blissful "Machine Gun," Slowdive are still capable of mouth-opening, spine-tingling flourishes. They've found a way to be quiet, moving, and aggressive simultaneously, mixing trance-like beauty with the deepest delayed guitar sounds around, a sound at once relaxing, soothing, and exciting, and most of all harshly beautiful. [SBK released Souvlaki in the U.S. a full eight months after its English release on Creation, with three-quarters of the 5 EP tacked on the end, plus one unreleased track, a memorable, spacy run through Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's "Some Velvet Morning."]

Souvlaki居然是羊肉串的意思

做这张专辑的时候，Slowdive被媒体猛烈批评，Shoegaze也面临过时的境地，而且Neil和Rachel刚刚分手，乐队氛围紧张而微妙，Neil在经纪人的建议下去乡下的小黑屋里独处了几个星期，并写了很多歌，最终创造这张牛专

"If Loveless is the noisy side of the coin, Souvlaki is the dreamy side. Yes it is a beautiful coin."

1993年第二张录音室专辑 专辑时长:40:40 AllMusic:4.5/5 NME:6/10 Pitchfork:9.3/10 Q:3/5 Record Collector:5/5 Select:4/5 Pitchfork评选Shoegaze最佳50张专辑:2/50

关于专辑名的来源:According to interviews with the band, the album was titled after an explicit skit on the first album by telephone pranksters The Jerky Boys, containing the line: "My wife loves that Greek sh*t. She'll s*ck your *ock like souvlaki.（摘自维基）

可能是最好的一张，Brian Eno与他们合作了Here She Comes和Sing，为它们弹键盘，并合写了Sing。

shoegazing的神专里，slowdive唯一干不过的也只有mbv那张《loveless》了吧。mbv的《loveless》打开了盯鞋的黄金时代，slowdive的《souvlaki》则为这个黄金时代保留了最后一份荣光。

也可以这么理解，或者说mbv 慢潜 ride本就代表盯鞋风格形成时的三种流派 mbv偏噪音，慢潜偏迷幻/梦泡，ride则偏pop气质

很抱歉打断你的浏览✋，但是今天（2023年5月17日）是英国盯鞋摇滚乐队Slowdive于1993年5月17日发行的盯鞋专辑《Souvlaki》的30周年纪念日，请您立即停下手边事情，为这张伟大的专辑献上最真挚的祝福。

突然发现souvlaki nowhere loveless都没无损音质……难道音质低点才有听盯鞋的感觉？[大笑]

原专：曲1-10 11-14为Bonus Track

曲目顺序原来是错的，私信修改完毕