Isn’t Anything by My Bloody Valentine

Isn't Anything, My Bloody Valentine's debut album, came out on Creation in November 1988, the same year the Dublin band landed on the label after a run of early releases that went nowhere. The band produced it themselves, and it pulls the guitar experiments of the EPs before it into one woozy, bruising whole.

Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher trade hushed, half-buried vocals over guitars that bend and smear like warped vinyl, while Colm Ó Cíosóig's drums and Debbie Googe's bass shove everything forward; "Feed Me With Your Kiss" pounds away like a pop song trapped in a wind tunnel. The critics raved, it went to number one on the UK indie albums chart, and it laid the groundwork for the sound that came to be called shoegaze. Loveless came next.

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