Outside Your Room EP vinyl

Slowdive's second album, Souvlaki, defined a time and sound in rock, helping establish shoegaze as a genre and cementing the English outfit as one of the pre-eminent founding members of that movement. Combining the euphoria of electronic chill with the vastness of classical and songcraft of indie pop, it offered a purity of sound at odds with the often very full and complex instrumentals.

Outside Your Room is an EP full of tracks taken from that record, and as such is exactly what we mean. 'So Tired' feels like an opium dream, scuzzy, unkept, and yet blissful and utterly intoxicating in its own way. 'Alison' opens the scoring on a more anthemic note, vocals gently riding the waves of melody beneath. 'Souvlaki Space Station' is all build with absolutely no let off from its sparse but commanding atmospherics, while 'Moussaka Chaos' turns those elements around to rethink the entire arrangement. Exquisite stuff.