| Pastels, The / Slow Summit |
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| Album: | Slow Summit | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Pastels, The | Added: | Jun 2013 | |
| Label: | Domino Recording Company | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-06-17 | Pull Date: | 2013-08-19 |
| Week Ending: | Aug 11 | Aug 4 | Jul 28 | Jul 21 | Jul 14 | Jul 7 | Jun 30 | Jun 23 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 19, 2020: | Alphabet Soup Night Time Made Us | 4. | Sep 25, 2013: | Meow After Midnight: The Best Of Summer 2013 Come To The Dance | |
| 2. | Jan 07, 2014: | Meow: The Best Of 2013 Come To The Dance | 5. | Aug 24, 2013: | Music Casserole Night Time Made Us | |
| 3. | Nov 06, 2013: | Fried Egg Secret Music | 6. | Aug 23, 2013: | Meow: The Big Takeover Secret Music |
| Album Review |
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| glu Reviewed 2013-06-17 | ||
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Here's the review: Pop from the iconic 80s glasgow pop/rock/punk band. Slow Summits is graceful, gentle, dreamy; like a slightly more twee version of Illumination. Many songs are on the edge of being a ballad, but are also often lush and brightly nostalgic. A very restrained, mature, and pretty album. If you are a fan, you will love it for all its nostalgic modulations; if not, appreciate it for the above qualities. Both female and male vocals. Stephen's voice is characteristically reverb-y. Katrina has replaced Aggi on vocals, but sounds every bit as good. Lots of mostly subtle flute, violin, and trumpet bits. I like 3, 2, 1, 9 RIYL Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, Teenage Fanclub, K records, Sarah records, Creation records. 1.* 4:27. Gentle woodwind. Soft female vocals. Downtempo, dreamy, languid. 2.* 4:55. Stephen singing+female harmonizing. Flickering candle, nostalgia groove. Awesome mid tempo pop. 3.* 3:41. M + F duet, w/ layered f vocals. Relatively upbeat, subtly bright/optimistic pop. Infectious. The single. 4. 5:01. Stephen ballad. Midtempo. A sad summer walk around glasgow. 5. 2:49. Instrumental pianos and others. Pretty and slow; aching, somewhat lush. certainly worth a play. 6. 4:19. Female. slow, dramatic, violin solos. almost mellow 50s ballad? 7. 4:52. Introspective. Midtempo pop and rock. Classic pastels guitars. One of the 8. 6:26. Unfolding guitar jam with some synth blips and flute/trumpet. A few wordless vocals at the end. Pleasant. 9.* 2:42. Super twee midtempo pop. F vocals. A bit of soul. Restrained exuberance | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Secret Music | 5. | After Image | |||
| 2. | Night Time Made Us | 6. | Kicking Leaves | |||
| 3. | Check My Heart | 7. | Wrong Light | |||
| 4. | Summer Rain | 8. | Slow Summits | |||
| 9. | Come To The Dance | |||||