“It was fairly a pure, natural factor,” Halstead says of the evolution of Slowdive mk. 2, who’ve now firmly shed the ‘reunion band’ tag. On their first attempt, they managed 7 years collectively earlier than splitting; the second time round, they’re nearing a decade and nonetheless going robust. This yr’s new album All the things is Alive, their most commercially profitable so far, pushes their sound forwards subtly and thoroughly, with poppier parts sprinkled amongst their signature wave of shoegaze guitars.