The Young Folks’ Top 50 Albums of 2017

For the second year in a row, The Young Folks music staff has compiled a list of our Top 50 favorite albums of the year. For the 2017 installment we have expanded the list to include all 16 active music…

Album Review: Slowdive – “Slowdive”

When the British shoegazing band Slowdive reunited in 2014, it felt like the final confirmation that the band had escaped the narrative that had followed them for their entire career. Just teenagers when they formed in 1989, the band’s early…

Slowdive announce self-titled album

  Slowdive have announced their first album since 1995’s Pygmalion will be released this spring. The British shoegazing band’s self-titled fourth album will be released through indie label Dead Oceans on May 5. The album follows nearly two years of well-received tours…

Slowdive return with “Star Roving”

British shoegaze band Slowdive have released “Star Roving”, their first new song in 22 years. The song was teased by the band with an enigmatic tweet yesterday, and was premiered this morning on Shaun Keaveny’s breakfast program on BBC 6…