“I wanted to play like Johnny Marr, but I lacked the ability – or was too lazy. So we ended up with these big, beautiful drones”: Slowdive are one of shoegaze’s most important bands – here’s how they shaped a genre (and the pedal market)

Their tones are so revered, entire pedals are dedicated to replicating their 1994 opus, Souvlaki. Slowdive’s soundscaping guitarist Christian Savill reveals how unwanted stompboxes from local metal bands developed the band’s groundbreaking sound, and how they avoided “being too much like My Bloody Valentine”