On 6 February 1995, Slowdive released their experimental third studio album, “Pygmalion." It was the group's final album before their reformation in 2014, and their only album with Ian McCutcheon, who had replaced Simon Scott on drums.
With the Britpop genre at the height of its popularity in 1990's, Slowdive were seen as "past-their-sell-by-date shoegazers" by a music press who were more interested in covering the Britpop scene. In 1999, critic Ned Raggett ranked Pygmalion at number 122 on his list of the best albums of the 1990s for Freaky Trigger. In 2016, Pitchfork listed it as the 12th best shoegaze album of all time.