![]() They were finally a real rock band, with pulsing bass and brisk tempos and guitars that sound like guitars.īy late 1988, Shields put together an extended single and an album that secured MBV's status as guitar-pop innovators. And nothing they'd done before sounded as effortless as "Drive It All Over Me". Kevin Shields was a great admirer of the Beatles' flair for melody, but he'd never written a tune as breezy and memorable as "Thorn". They had experimented with guitar noise, but they'd never succeeded in making something like the title track, which walked a razor's edge between bliss and terror. You Made Me Realise, originally released in 1988, is a perennial on any list of the greatest EPs of all time and it vastly improves upon their earlier work. Imbibing this material in one large gulp feels like a new window into the band's brilliance. This release provides the greatest revelation. ![]() EPs 1988-1991 collects four EPs and a single issued during the band’s creative peak, along with previously unreleased (but widely bootlegged) tracks. In addition to new masters of Isn't Anything and Loveless, there's also a new My Bloody Valentine release, of a sort. They're available only in the UK for now, but yes, the My Bloody Valentine remasters exist. The inferred punchline was "neither." Advance copies circulated four years ago, but the leaks came and went and no one was sure if they were real. ![]() The remasters of My Bloody Valentine's Creation catalog had been announced and delayed so many times, it became a running joke to ask which would come first, the Loveless remasters or the long-awaited follow-up. I'm holding the CDs right now, and I can tell you, they exist. ![]()
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