Slowdive Album "Souvlaki" (Missing 1990s Tracks)

Souvlaki is British shoegazing band, Slowdive's second album. It is often considered the band's best work and is a staple of the shoegazing movement. The album is also known for its troubled, dramatic production that could give My Bloody Valentine's Loveless a run for its money.

Production started after a tour supporting the band's first album, Just For A Day. Creation Records flubbed the album's promotion and blamed the band themselves, demanding that this next album be "full of hits". After a run-in with a toy train taking up the recording space (of which another shoegazing band, Spiritualized, left behind as a joke), the band had an unproductive recording session. They then returned to England where they recorded a reported 40 tracks, that the band was proud of. After allowing Alan McGee, the head of Creation Records to listen to the tracks he loudly declared "They're all shit!", causing the now understandably frustrated band to have to go back and record the tracks that would become Souvlaki.

These 40 tracks have never surfaced, and seeing as how Creation Records has a very strict holding policy on tracks, they likely never will. They have never been bootlegged or leaked. Fans have been desperately searching for the tracks, but the search has been fruitless. Even Neil Halstead doesn't have the master tapes and is hoping that the material gets released sometime in the future.