Isn't Anything

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My Bloody Valentine – the quartet of Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, Deb Googe, and Colm Ó Ciosóig – are one of the most innovative and influential bands of the last forty years. At a time when English guitar bands were, at best, denoting a certain retro-classicism, My Bloody Valentine resembled none of their contemporaries and sounded 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 and studio production for generations to come. The album gave birth to a sound that became a blueprint for thousands of new subgenres. This musical revolution also paved the way for a new type of journalism; prompting comparisons to elemental phenomena, drawing on how the music affected the psyche. Frequently singing in the same register, Shields’ and Butcher’s vocals blend into a melodic layer that renders their gender indiscernible and complements the dizzying sounds of Shields’ guitars.