Slowcore Week

Slowcore Week: Other highlights of slowcore - a brief round-up

To cap off this week of in-depth articles about slowcore, DiS writers and readers have summed up their favourite 'other' slowcore bands.»

Slowcore Week: DiS Meets The New Year (formerly Bedhead)

In Depth by Alexander Tudor

No account of Slowcore would be complete without Bedhead (1991-1998), whose main songwriters, the Brothers Kadane became The New Year. If you thought Albini-engineered math-rock couldn't get better than Slint, think again. Arguably the most technically gifted musicians labelled slowcore, who better to tell us what it might mean? »

Slowcore Week: Sun Kil Moon's 'Duk Koo Kim'

In Depth by Natalie Shaw

Fourteen minutes and thirty-two seconds of complete immersion in sound – yet the shortest fourteen minutes and thirty-two seconds that have ever passed this writer by. »

Slowcore Week: ReDiScover - Red House Painters

In Depth by Hari Ashurst

There is one certainty in life: that Mark Kozelek will continue to release some of the most beautiful, most intimate, most necessary, music known to man, year after year.»

Slowcore Week: a profile of Early Day Miners

In Depth by Alexander Tudor

For almost a decade, Early Day Miners have been one of the best kept secrets in contemporary American independent music. "Ambient/Post-rock" they may have called themselves, but in a word, let's call it slowcore...»

Slowcore Week: Fifteen Years of Chairkickers Music with Low (part 2)

In Depth by Alexander Tudor

Part Two of our profile of Low, covering the albums and events of the years 2001 - 2008»

Slowcore Week: Cat Power – the Early Years

In Depth by Alexander Tudor

Often overlooked due to her later move toward Memphis soul, and unhelpfully labelled “lo-fi” due to contemporary trends, Chan Marshall’s early releases (prior to 1998’s MoonPix) may best be considered slowcore, and although they’re a tough listen, they deserve a re-appraisal.»

Slowcore Week: Fifteen Years of Temporary Relief, with Low (part 1)

In Depth by Alexander Tudor

In an early interview, from 1996, Alan Sparhawk joked that Low originated from an idea to make the slowest, most depressing music possible (“…and then I thought “Cool!”). As one of the longest-running bands still (reluctantly) tagged "slowcore", it's fair to say this week wouldn't have happened without them...»

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In Depth by Richard Riggs

Spiderland inspired everyone from Tortoise to Mogwai and Cat Power; PJ Harvey wrote to the band in response to their request for a female vocalist; Will Oldham took the photo which became its famous cover; Steve Albini reviewed it in Melody Maker with the verdict "ten f^cking stars". Here, our guest musician explores its cultural impact, alongside Codeine's even starker The White Birch, and analyses their musical similarities, to suggest what "slowcore" might be in technical terms.»

Slowcore Week: ReDiScover - Galaxie 500

In Depth by Jordan Dowling

Galaxie 500 are widely considered to be one of the definitive bands of the late-1980s/early-1990s American underground. In the first of our slowcore articles, we consider them as an influence on many of the bands to emerge slightly later.»

Slowcore Week: An Introduction

News by Alexander Tudor

Welcome to a week devoted to Slowcore… arguably an “Alternative to Alternative music” that grew up in the shadow of Grunge, just as Teenage Rebellion was being commodified in the early 1990s.»