Blue Day

by Slowdive

Blue Day cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: February 1992
  • Label: Creation
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 35:38
  • Community rating: 4.74/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released shortly after their debut full-length 'Just for a Day', this compilation gathers tracks from Slowdive's highly acclaimed first three EPs. The sequence highlights their immediate mastery of deeply reverberated, delay-soaked guitar textures and Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell's breathless, interlocked vocal harmonies. Showcasing early anthems like 'Catch the Breeze', the record is frequently cited alongside their core studio albums as a definitive pillar of the original shoegaze era.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, noisy, wall of sound, british, reverb-heavy

Tracklist

  1. Slowdive (5:15)
  2. Avalyn 1 (4:51)
  3. Morningrise (4:19)
  4. She Calls (5:38)
  5. Losing Today (5:00)
  6. Shine (5:21)
  7. Albatross (5:14)

Credits

  • Neil Halstead - written-by
  • Slowdive - primary artist, producer, written-by
  • Chris Hufford - engineer
  • Martin Nichols - engineer
  • Alan Moulder - remix

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