“Born from Slowdive's dissolution, Mojave 3 traded shoegaze walls for country-tinged dream pop — Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell building something tender and unhurried on 4AD.”
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Curatorial notes
When Creation Records dropped Slowdive in 1995 — casualties of Britpop's loud insistence that guitars should swagger rather than shimmer — vocalist Neil Halstead, bassist Rachel Goswell, and drummer Ian McCutcheon didn't disappear. They reinvented themselves entirely. A six-track demo of country-inflected, slowcore songs caught 4AD's ear, and Mojave 3 were signed to a label whose lineage (Cocteau...
