Album - Isn't Anything
Released - 1988
Label - Creation
Genre - Alternative-Rock/Shoegazing
Tracks:
Side One
Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)
Lose My Breath
Cupid Come
(When You Wake) You're Still In A Dream
No More Sorry
All I Need
Side Two
Feed Me With Your Kiss
Sueisfine
Several Girls Galore
You Never Should
Nothing Much To Lose
I Can't See It (But I Can't Feel It)
Listening to this record made me think to myself, "My Bloody Valentine is a band you either love or hate." When I expressed those words to my roommate, he said, "Isn't it like that with every band?" You do have those thoughts when you are first listening to music and within the first few minutes of a song you can determine that, but my point with My Bloody Valentine is that their sound is so unique, one could come across them as a band being very annoying. Of course, that is my opinion, but I do believe they are a band that has to grow on you and they definitely grown on me. After listening to them for a few years, I heard experiencing their live performance can be a bit piercing. With regards to this record, being My Bloody Valentine's full-length debut album. Isn't Anything really put things on the map for My Bloody Valentine, especially with Kevin Shields impeccable skills. I always accepted and love Kevin Shields and I think that is why I've always liked My Bloody Valentine. The band describes this albums sound as "dry ice-piercingly intense guitar drones and hefty nods to miasmic hardcore soup, oozing a contrary trance-spun drone. Noise becomes beauty as feedback is layered over vocals over feedback ad infinitum" (taken from Wikipedia).
If you don't know much about My Bloody Valentine, this is, indeed, a great album to start with.
Enjoy!
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