RACHEL GOSWELL
Waves Are Universal
4AD
· Sometimes a drop of lavender under my pillow puts me to sleep forever.
It's not like you can blame Rachel Goswell for wanting to take a solo shot given how long she's lived in the shadows of Neil Halstead, first in Slowdive, then Mojave 3 and finally Halstead’s own limp solo attempts.
While she's always been capable of coming up with a charming track or two on each Mojave 3 album, the reality of an album's worth of Goswell originals only hits once you realize the credits give song-by-song thanks to Mother Nature (who, for example, plays rain on "Thru the Dawn" and Thai waves on "Shoulder the Blame").
Most of Waves Are Universal passes by just as you'd expect – I imagine Rachel spinning, her eyes shut, probably wet from Thai waves, but not caring because she just feels it so much – the music, the melody. "Sleepless + Tooting" is nice and made me giggle because I think it's secretly about farting in bed. You go Rachel.
Bottom line: we may have the least offensive album of the year.
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