My Bloody Valentine signer med Domino Records og digitaliserer hele deres bagkatalog
Det irsk-engelske rockband my bloody valentine har signet med Domino Records og digitaliserer nu hele deres skelsættende bagkatalog for første gang!
Derudover er nye fysiske udgiver af deres albums tilgængelige fra d. 21. maj, hvor de to albums Isn’t Anything og loveless i den forbindelse er blevet remastered fuldt fra analog til deluxe og standard vinyl.
De fire medlemmer, Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, Deb Googe og Colm Ó Cíosóig, som gruppen består af, bliver i vid udtrækning set som et af de mest banebrydende og indflydelsesrige grupper gennem de sidste 40 år. I en era, hvor guitarbands i bedste fald betegnede en retro-klassicisme, lød my bloody valentine anderledes end alle andre på det tidspunkt, og opnåede det sjældne: at lyde som fremtiden.
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Om de fire album:
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.
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.
ep’s 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).
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.