{"title":"The Slow Show","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"still-life-6","title":"Still Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Slow Show return with their fourth album. The making of \u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e has been quite the ride. Following their breakthrough album, \u003ci\u003eWhite Water,\u003c\/i\u003e it was clear The Slow Show were 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the band’s desire to push each other outside of their respective comfort zones during the recording process, \u003ci\u003eStill Life \u003c\/i\u003esubsequently offers a more diverse, rich and interesting sound than previous albums.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecorded remotely over the course of the past year, with Goodwin recording vocals from Dusseldorf in Germany and the rest of band recording in the UK, \u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e as a concept, takes inspiration from the experiences of lockdown:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tracks themselves are brimming with emotion and reverence towards the significant relationships we encounter in life. Stand-out anthem ‘Blinking’ is a defiant pledge to never giving up on the people you love. Musically the band wanted the song to have impact, a directness and powerful punch that they'd previously shied away from. Whilst ‘Woven Blue’ deals with the aftermath of uncoupling. The idea that meaningful relationships are very often woven and complex, making resolve difficult. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese very personal tracks are counterbalanced with the more topical, ‘Breathe’, which documents some of the unjust and heart-breaking scenes of 2020 with spoken word references to John Boyega’s emotional rallying cry in support of Black Lives Matter movement in London's Hyde Park.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn all, \u003ci\u003eStill Life\u003c\/i\u003e marks another evolution of a band that have never tried to fit in any particular box but have inhabited their own unique universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PIAS","offers":[{"title":"White | LP","offer_id":50479115895115,"sku":"1136346","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50479115600203,"sku":"1136345","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cd52f9e9-a9cd-4173-8d1b-32e42ad49967_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727501232"},{"product_id":"subtle-love","title":"Subtle Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSubtle Love\u003c\/i\u003e not only distills The Slow Show’s sumptuous indie pop formula, but it casts the group’s net into exciting fresh waters, incorporating winsome folk (Royal Blue) and anthemic, widescreen rock (One Shot) too. Across ten songs, the listener is taken on an amble through the band’s past and into a tantalising future. It is a highly melodic and moving affair, made by kindred spirits and lifelong friends. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The band decamped to Cave Hill in Belfast, where Joel Byrne-McCullough grew up. “I hadn’t been there for 15 years,” marvels the guitarist. While there, the band stuck side by side and bonded afresh. “It was a great time of togetherness,” reveals Rob. “We lived in the same house, we ate together, we went to the local pub, we talked about life.”     Across a five-day period, all ten songs that make up the album had taken shape and been committed to tape by their producer, Joel’s brother, Dan Byrne-McCullough. Dan’s presence enabled an intimacy and familiarity that made everyone feel comfortable, and this brought out the best in the band.     One Shot is the first taster from the album and is arguably the band’s most anthemic and sing-a-long song of their career to date.     Joel reminisces “I remember when we had the music of One Shot. It was the evening, and we were sat in the sitting room in Belfast, the fire was on, and we were having our dinner watching the news: me, Rob, and Fred. After dinner, Rob was singing a few things over those chords.  As soon as he sung, ‘We’ve got one shot’, I said, 'That's it'.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PIAS","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50484752810315,"sku":"2026720","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50484756316491,"sku":"2026721","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Subtle_Love_e57dd68c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727592287"},{"product_id":"lust-and-learn","title":"Lust and Learn","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Slow Show release their third album\u003ci\u003e Lust And Learn\u003c\/i\u003e via PIAS Recordings. With 2015’s \u003ci\u003eWhite Water\u003c\/i\u003e and the following year’s \u003ci\u003eDream Darling\u003c\/i\u003e The Slow Show established themselves as a band who inhabit their own universe. There are antecedents – the exploratory beauty of Talk Talk, the ability to frame a story like Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, The Blue Nile’s determination not to waste a single note. It all coalesces into something other: unless you’ve heard The Slow Show before, you won’t have heard anything quite like The Slow Show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the name implies, songs take their time in The Slow Show, though there’s a fresh sense of immediacy in lead single \u003ci\u003eHard To Hide\u003c\/i\u003e. But this is music built to last. That’s not accidental: singer Rob Goodwin and keyboardist Frederick ’t Kindt spent 18 months honing every note of \u003ci\u003eLust And Learn\u003c\/i\u003e into shape. Kindt helped establish leading Manchester studio Blueprint and knows the best local strings and brass players, who have helped The Slow Show since the start, while the Halle Youth Choir add the perfect counterpoint to Goodwin’s rich, sonorous voice. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps the best and starkest example of just how The Slow Show move people comes in new song \u003ci\u003eThe Fall\u003c\/i\u003e. Its evocative sense of peace are the only suitable setting for a song written after a fan emailed the band to say how their song saved her life. She was on a motorway bridge when a Slow Show song came on shuffle. Goodwin recalls: “What she’d been through was terribly sad, but the message she sent ended by saying she was peaceful now, that she was OK. The song is sad and dramatic, but hopefully it will make people feel more peaceful than anxious.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout\u003ci\u003e Lust And Learn\u003c\/i\u003e, Goodwin delivers his stories with care, tenderness, and empathy. On \u003ci\u003eThe Fall, Hard To Hide and Exit Wounds\u003c\/i\u003e, he is accompanied by Keisha Jones, whose sparse vocals also featured on \u003ci\u003eDream Darling\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRarely has a band created such a powerful, fully realised world from what initially appears such a minimal framework. No matter how gentle the beauty of their songs, The Slow Show are a band worth shouting about from the rooftops.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PIAS","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50498225602891,"sku":"1063167","price":5.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4d9ab743-ed75-436d-a908-1a004a9dbd37_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727741941"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/the-slow-show.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}