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Listening to 'Still Life' for the first time, you’d think it's The Slow Show as you know it. Returning to debut 'White Water', only six years old, you realise this has become a different band. 'It's in the name', the keyboard player grins. 'You think we don't evolve, but as you can hear on this record we've stepped quite a bit out of our comfort zone.'
This is the fourth album by The Slow Show, and it has been a ride. Between the start of the band around 2012 and the Moment the World Stood Still, this band had an amazing eight years. From their breakthrough 'White Water' on, it was clear The Slow Show was not 'just another band from Manchester.' The legacy of The Smiths, Joy Division and all those other great predecessors is not something to be trifled with, but The Slow Show didn't need to wear their address on their sleeve: this was something else, fully formed, with a mesmerising sound, rich in atmosphere and melody, with hints of The National. Americana with a stiff upper lip, you might want to call it.
This is the fourth album by The Slow Show, and it has been a ride. Between the start of the band around 2012 and the Moment the World Stood Still, this band had an amazing eight years. From their breakthrough 'White Water' on, it was clear The Slow Show was not 'just another band from Manchester.' The legacy of The Smiths, Joy Division and all those other great predecessors is not something to be trifled with, but The Slow Show didn't need to wear their address on their sleeve: this was something else, fully formed, with a mesmerising sound, rich in atmosphere and melody, with hints of The National. Americana with a stiff upper lip, you might want to call it.
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