The Sanctuary Records subsidiary label Castle Music issued a remastered edition of Pygmalion in 2005.

Though Slowdive had begun preparing for an expected tour of the United Kingdom in support of Pygmalion, a week after the album's release Creation dropped Slowdive from its roster, and by the end of the year the band had split. The cover illustration for the album, designed by Steven Woodhouse, features imagery from Rainer Wehinger's graphic notation for GyГ¶rgy Ligeti's 1958 work Artikulation. Pygmalion was released on 6 February 1995 by Creation Records. The music on the album reflected Halstead's experimentation with digital technology and techniques such as looping, which was born out of his increased fascination with dance music. With the exception of the lyrics for the songs 'Miranda' and 'Visions of LA', which were written by Rachel Goswell, Pygmalion was composed by Neil Halstead. BBC Music writer Wyndham Wallace viewed Pygmalion as a shoegaze album, albeit not in the traditional sense, noting that at points the record forgoes percussion 'entirely'. Pitchfork 's Nitsuh Abebe described the album's songs as ' ambient pop dreams' that are stylistically closer to post-rock than the band's trademark shoegaze style.

A departure from Slowdive's previous two studio albums Just for a Day (1991) and Souvlaki (1993), Pygmalion features a more experimental sound tilted towards ambient electronic music, with sparse, atmospheric arrangements.

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