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- Souvlaki
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Slowdive
Released 1993

Alison
03:50
6,997 plays

Machine Gun
04:27
5,213 plays

When The Sun Hits
04:45
4,592 plays

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- 1
- Alison
- 03:50
- 6,997 plays

- 2
- Machine Gun
- 04:27
- 5,213 plays

- 3
- 40 Days
- 03:14
- 4,112 plays

- 4
- Sing
- 04:50
- 3,180 plays

- 5
- Here She Comes
- 02:21
- 3,688 plays

- 6
- Souvlaki Space Station
- 05:56
- 4,035 plays

- 7
- When The Sun Hits
- 04:45
- 4,592 plays

- 8
- Altogether
- 03:41
- 3,001 plays

- 9
- Melon Yellow
- 03:54
- 2,781 plays

- 10
- Dagger
- 03:33
- 3,544 plays

- 11
- Some Velvet Morning (Bonus CD Track)
- 03:23
- 2,610 plays

- 12
- Good Day Sunshine (Bonus CD Track)
- 05:06
- 2,377 plays

- 13
- Missing You (Bonus CD Track)
- 04:14
- 2,180 plays

- 14
- Country Rain (Bonus CD Track)
- 03:33
- 2,168 plays

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album review

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."] ~ Jack Rabid, All Music Guide