30 years ago today, Slowdive released their second studio album “Souvlaki” featuring the single “Alison”. It has since received retrospective critical acclaim and has been hailed as a classic of the shoegaze genre.
In 1999, critic Ned Raggett ranked Souvlaki at number 83 on his list of the best albums of the 1990s for Freaky Trigger. Pitchfork released a documentary about the album in 2015 as part of its Pitchfork Classic series. The following year, the website listed Souvlaki as the second best shoegaze album of all time.