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Knocked Loose, Alex G and Slowdive are topping the bill for Outbreak Festival 2025 in Manchester
Knocked Loose will headline Manchester's two-day Outbreak Festival in June 2025, sharing top billing with Alex G and Slowdive.
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'Slomo' unfolds as a six-minute meditation on the texture of intimacy. Slowdive builds the track around a simple, repeating refrain: the exchange of love and heart between two people, each described as curious, strange, almost uncertain. The song moves like its title suggests, unhurried and deliberate, allowing space for the vocals to drift across layers of guitar and rhythm. The lyrics work in fragments and images. There is a figure, "our lady of the shipwreck", running through a storm with her skirts blown back, hands forward. There are two lovers described as dreamers at dawn, awake but not yet fully conscious, younger than clouds. The repetition of these phrases across the track's length becomes hypnotic, the curiosity of love and the peculiar ache of connection settling into something like acceptance. What emerges is less a narrative than a feeling: the sense of moving through something beautiful and bewildering at once.
"Slomo" is a track by Slowdive, from the album Slowdive, released 5th November 1990. The track is 6:53 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Slowdive.
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