Five minutes and forty-eight seconds: For the first time I have missed a posting deadline, so I’ve uploaded this file to Freaky Trigger, not Tumblr. I hope it works!
This is “Love Songs On The Radio” by Mojave 3, the post-Slowdive band formed by Rachel Slowdive and, er, Someone Else Slowdive. It was excitably described as “country” by those top country experts the British music press - which is to say it has lots of slide guitar on it. At the time - 1995 - I thought it was very beautiful, and I’m still fond of it. It appears here not because it does anything amazing with its running time but because I have been trying to work out what the new Beach House record reminds me of and this sleepyheaded prettiness is as close as I’ve managed to get.
What would your 5’48” record be?
Re: “Someone else Slowdive”—that’d be singer/guitarist Neil Halstead, the guy who wrote all the songs for both bands, and Ian McCutcheon, who played drums on the last Slowdive album, Pygmalion. Originally, Mojave 3 were just 3/5 of Slowdive playing as a trio. They have either 5 or 6 members now.
