Tremolo by My Bloody Valentine

Tremolo, the EP My Bloody Valentine put out on Creation in February 1991, is the last word from the Dublin band before Loveless swallowed everything, and it plays like a dispatch from deep inside the fog. Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher's guitars don't ring so much as melt, bending and warping like a tape left on a hot dashboard, while Debbie Googe's bass and Colm Ó Cíosóig's drums and samples keep a pulse somewhere under the haze. The voices are murmurs, soft and androgynous, just one more texture in the smear.

The single, "To Here Knows When", is the dreamiest thing on it, a woozy drift that later resurfaced on Loveless in a different mix. Coming on the heels of Glider, the EP was another critical win for the band, and it went all the way to the top of the UK Indie Chart.

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