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Mike McGonigal

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless - 33 1/3

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This epoch-making record of the late '80s effortlessly combines dense swathes of guitar noise and dance music. This turned out to be their last record, guitarist and studio maestro Kevin Shields having set their standards so high it was impossible to surpass them. Shields is now playing with Primal Scream.

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My Bloody Valentine

Isn't Anything - 2022 Reissue

Domino

My Bloody Valentine, the quartet of Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, Deb Googe and Colm Ó Cíosóig, are widely revered as one of the most ground-breaking 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 its songs, which veered between the harried and propulsive, to the subdued and eerie.

TRACK LISTING

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
Feed Me With Your Kiss
Sueisfine
Several Girls Galore
You Never Should
Nothing Much To Lose
I Can See It (but I Can’t Feel it)

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My Bloody Valentine

M B V - 2021 Reissue

Domino

Deluxe LP

£29.99

Cat Number

REWIGLP160X

Release date

21 May '21

LP

£25.99

Gatefold sleeve.
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REWIGLP160

Release date

21 May '21

Format Info

Gatefold sleeve.
Includes set of 5 card “artwork” prints (264mm x 264mm) in re-sealable plastic sleeve, inserts to front pocket.
Black heavyweight LP, printed polylined inner sleeve, inserts to rear pocket.
Download card.

CD

£9.99
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REWIGCD160

Release date

21 May '21

Format Info

4-panel “mini LP” style gatefold card sleeve.
8-page booklet in front pocket.
CD in printed card inner wallet in rear pocket.

Finally re-emerging in 2013 after two full decades in relative hiding, their third album m b v is by turns their most experimental record but also their most melodic and immediate; proof real of their unerring desire for re-invention. Continuing to push boundaries of both music and genre, m b v is an album of astonishing music, some of which could lay claim to being of a type never been made before. Otherworldly, intimate and a visceral listen, m b v is a startling and beautiful metamorphosis of what was known of the my bloody valentine sound, pushing the boundaries of genre unlike any other band. The album’s closer, “Wonder 2” is an example of this, seeing Shields meld hypnotic guitar with drum’n’bass to astonishing result.

TRACK LISTING

1. She Found Now
2. Only Tomorrow
3. Who Sees You
4. Is This And Yes
5. If I Am
6. New You
7. In Another Way
8. Nothing Is
9. Wonder 2

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My Bloody Valentine

Isn't Anything - 2021 Reissue

Domino

LP

£25.99

Gatefold sleeve with... [ + ]

Cat Number

REWIGLP158

Release date

21 May '21

Format Info

Gatefold sleeve with sealed front pocket.
Black heavyweight LP, printed polylined inner sleeve, inserts to rear pocket.
Download card.

CD

£9.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days

6 panel “mini LP” style... [ + ]

Cat Number

REWIGCD158

Release date

21 May '21

Format Info

6 panel “mini LP” style gatefold card sleeve with sealed front pocket.

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.

TRACK LISTING

1. Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside)
2. Lose My Breath
3. Cupid Come
4. (When You Wake) You’re Still In A Dream
5. No More Sorry
6. All I Need
7. Feed Me With Your Kiss
8. Sueisfine
9. Several Girls Galore
10. You Never Should
11. Nothing Much To Lose
12. I Can See It (But I Can’t Feel It)

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My Bloody Valentine

EP's 1988-1991 And Rare Tracks - 2021 Reissue

Domino

2xCD

£12.99
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8-panel “Mini LP” style... [ + ]

Cat Number

REWIGCD162

Release date

21 May '21

Format Info

8-panel “Mini LP” style gatefold card sleeve.
CD1 in front pocket.
CD2 + 16-page booklet in rear pocket.

EPs 1988-1991 And Rare Tracks compiles the group’s four EPs, wherein many of their devoted fans’ favourite music lies. You Made Me Realise and Feed Me With Your Kiss both preceded the band’s debut album in 1988 in quick succession. In the gap between Isn’t Anything and loveless, the band released two further EPs; Glider (1990) and Tremolo (1991).

TRACK LISTING

CD1
1. You Made Me Realise
2. Slow
3. Thorn
4. Cigarette In Your Bed
5. Drive It All Over Me
6. Feed Me With Your Kiss
7. I Believe
8. Emptiness Inside
9. I Need No Trust
10. Soon
11. Glider
12. Don’t Ask Why
13. Off Your Face

CD2
1. To Here Knows When
2. Swallow
3. Honey Power
4. Moon Song
5. Instrumental No. 2
6. Instrumental No. 1
7. Glider (full Length Version)
8. Sugar
9. Angel
10. Good For You
11. How Do You Do It

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My Bloody Valentine

Loveless - 2021 Reissue

Domino

Deluxe LP

£29.99
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Cat Number

REWIGLP159X

Release date

21 May '21

Format Info

Fully analog cut. Deluxe gatefold tip-on and board-mounted sleeve with sealed front pocket.
Black heavyweight LP, printed polylined inner sleeve, inserts to rear pocket.
Download card.

LP

£25.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days

Gatefold sleeve with... [ + ]

Cat Number

REWIGLP159

Release date

21 May '21

Format Info

Gatefold sleeve with sealed front pocket.
Black heavyweight LP, printed polylined inner sleeve, inserts to rear pocket.
Download card.

2xCD

£12.99
Usually ships within: 2-5 days

6-panel “mini LP” style... [ + ]

Cat Number

REWIGCD159

Release date

21 May '21

Format Info

6-panel “mini LP” style gatefold card sleeve with 2x pockets.
CD1 - loveless (Remastered from original 1630 tape) in front pocket.
CD2 - loveless (Half inch analogue tape) in rear pocket.

The second my bloody valentine album, loveless, was released in 1991. Musically, it took an unexpected leap forwards, standing ahead of anything released at the time. Shields and the band moved further towards a music of pure sensation, creating textures and tones that could be felt as much as heard; with loveless the band created an album that overwhelmed the senses. loveless is widely considered a flawless whole and rightly regarded as a masterpiece; a 1990s equivalent to Pet Sounds, In A Silent Way or Innervisions, a record constructed by exploring the edges of what a recording studio is capable of. It is a record best experienced as a whole, in one sitting - a listening experience like no other and unmatchable in its sonic brevity.

TRACK LISTING

1. Only Shallow
2. Loomer
3. Touched
4. To Here Knows When
5. When You Sleep
6. I Only Said
7. Come In Alone
8. Sometimes
9. Blown A Wish
10. What You Want
11. Soon

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