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."].
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alison | Slowdive | Play | 03:51 | 8 MB | 24 MB |
| 2 | Machine Gun | Slowdive | Play | 04:28 | 10 MB | 26 MB |
| 3 | 40 Days | Slowdive | Play | 03:16 | 7 MB | 21 MB |
| 4 | Sing | Slowdive | Play | 04:51 | 11 MB | 28 MB |
| 5 | Here She Comes | Slowdive | Play | 02:21 | 5 MB | 10 MB |
| 6 | Souvlaki Space Station | Slowdive | Play | 05:59 | 13 MB | 37 MB |
| 7 | When the Sun Hits | Slowdive | Play | 04:47 | 10 MB | 30 MB |
| 8 | Altogether | Slowdive | Play | 03:42 | 8 MB | 19 MB |
| 9 | Melon Yellow | Slowdive | Play | 03:55 | 8 MB | 20 MB |
| 10 | Dagger | Slowdive | Play | 03:33 | 8 MB | 17 MB |
| 11 | Some Velvet MorningLee Hazlewood | Slowdive | Play | 03:23 | 7 MB | 20 MB |
| 12 | Good Day Sunshine | Slowdive | Play | 05:08 | 11 MB | 25 MB |
| 13 | Missing You | Slowdive | Play | 04:16 | 9 MB | 21 MB |
| 14 | Country Rain | Slowdive | Play | 03:33 | 8 MB | 16 MB |
| 57 mins | 130 MB | |||||
| 57 mins | 321 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ed Butler | Mixing |
| 2 | Steve Double | Cover Photo |
| 3 | Brian Eno | Guest Artist, Keyboards, Treatments |
| 4 | Guy Fixsen | Engineer |
| 5 | Giles Hall | Assistant |
| 6 | Steve Hammonds | Project Manager |
| 7 | Lee Hazlewood | Composer |
| 8 | Chris Hufford | Engineer |
| 9 | Yvette Lacey | Assistant |
| 10 | Marcus Lindsay | Assistant |
| 11 | Martin Nichols | Engineer |
| 12 | Andy Pearce | Remastering |
| 13 | Slowdive | Mixing, Primary Artist, Producer |
| 14 | Becky Stewart | Reissue Design |
| 15 | Kieron Tyler | Liner Notes |
| 16 | Andy Wilkinson | Engineer |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |