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Neil Halstead - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's - 8/8/08

Photos taken at Johnny Brenda's by Doug Seymour...  read more

Neil Halstead: Oh! Mighty Engine

Slowdive founder burns slowlyAfter the quiet triumph of his first solo outing, 2002’s Sleeping On Roads, Neil Halstead apparently decided there was no need to fix what wasn’t broken. Smart guy. Oh! Mighty Engine returns to the land of sublime bedroom pop, all acoustic-based and velvet-vocaled, sincere but never strained, pretty and bittersweet. (See, in particular, “Queen Bee” and the title track, which are beautiful but disheveled—like a really attractive person with bedhead.) As a founder of 1990s shoegazers Slowdive, Halstead was a master of room-filling, soul-searching, eyeliner-smeared sound. Then the bearded Brit threw open the door to the sunlight...  read more