Pygmalion

Slowdive | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Phantom Sound & Visi
• ASIN: B00000E13A
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #607,037 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Remastered version of their 1995 album. Sleeve notes by Melody Makers Ian Watson. This was the band's final album resulting in a more spacey ambient feel. Castle. 2005. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Their masterpiece, November 30, 2005

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G. A. Skala "Eugene Skala" (Chicago, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pygmalion (Audio CD)

The song "Rutti" is worth the CD alone. It's a 10 minute shoegazer opus that is not like anything I've heard since Grateful Dead's "Dark Star". It's amazing they re-released this CD. It's a masterpiece.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars to the light outside, October 20, 2007

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polymer moy "schlisingercat4" (newport) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pygmalion (Audio CD)

I still can't understand what it is about certain music and it's mysterious abilities.

Pygmalion reaches great depths and stratas and it is very hard to let go of afterwards. When you think back to remember the music, you can't. Instead you remember where you were when you had it on, and the mood you were in and who you were with when it was on.

A very intimate album, and in some tragic way a romantic album as well + it drastically elevates the meaningful-ness level in the room with a lover -- after a terrible argument. It's invaluable in that department. I love it when music feels sometimes like a companion when things go wrong.

It's not 'happy' , nor is it 'sad'. It reaches a liminal middle ground somewhere.

This is one of my favorite albums.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Album Ever Released!!!, January 30, 2006

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Robin Tronson (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pygmalion (Audio CD)

This is my current desert island album. It's a classic. It's better than OK computer, Sgt Peppers, Pet Sounds, Dark Side of the Moon, Revolver etc....and it's sound is very unique. THINK: ambient+krautrock+shoegazer+goth - or - swoopy guitars+cliCKs+BLEEPS+muffled M/F vocals+repitition+silence. It's almost like a good flying saucer attack record - only better. It's an original multi-purpose masterpiece you can use for any occasion -- parties, weddings, funerals, wakes, elections.... It also helps you to sleep if you feel imsomnia-ish. It's a kind-of less is moreish album more or less.
Althogh `Souvlaki' is widely considered to be Slowdive's creative peak, (even Souvlaki's liner notes say so) you should buy Pygmalion too, and then make your OWN mind up.
Slowdive were getting better and better, but after they released Pygmalion they disbanded and re-banded as the M.O.R.-esque and comparitively boring "Mojave Three". I will never understand this BIZARRE turn of events.
Pygmalion = Essential listening.... thank you.