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Reissue of My Bloody Valentine’s phenomencal debut album. My Bloody Valentine, the quartet of Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, Deb Googe and Colm Cosig, are widely revered as one of the most groundbreaking and influential groups of the past forty years. During an era in which guitar bands denoted, at best, a retro-classicism, not only did My Bloody Valentine sound unlike any of their contemporaries, the band achieved the rare feat of sounding like the future. With their debut album, Isn’t Anything (originally released in 1988), My Bloody Valentine revolutionised alternative music and heralded a new approach to guitar music for generations to come. The album birthed a sound which became a template for thousands of new subgenres, heralding a new approach to guitar music and studio production. Not only was it a new type of music, it paved the way for a new type of journalism; inciting comparisons to elemental phenomenon, tapping into how the music affected the psyche. Shields and Butcher frequently sang in a similar vocal range that allowed their voices to blend together. This had the effect of making their gender indistinguishable, to the point where their voices could be used as another melodic layer to complement the vertigo-inducing sounds made by Shields guitars. It is a record characterised by the ominous sense of space that inhabits many of it’s songs, which veered between the harried and propulsive, to the subdued and eerie.
- 1Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)
- 2Lose My Breath
- 3Cupid Come
- 4(When You Wake) You’re Still in a Dream
- 5No More Sorry
- 6All I Need
- 7Feed Me with Your Kiss
- 8Sueisfine
- 9Several Girls Galore
- 10You Never Should
- 11Nothing Much to Lose
- 12I Can See It (But I Can’t Feel It)
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