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Slowdive: Pygmalion (Cherry Red Records)

Ian Watson, Cherry Red Records, 2010

THE PRESS hated it. Let's get that out of that way at the beginning. With the UK in the midst of Britpop euphoria, there was no space — physically or culturally — for an album of ambient experimentation.

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