Isn't Anything
| My Bloody Valentine
Isn't Anything
Isn't Anything is the debut studio album by English-Irish rock band My Bloody Valentine, released on 21 November 1988 by Creation Records. Its innovative instrumental and production techniques consolidated the experimentation of the band's preceding EPs, and would make it a pioneering work of the subgenre known as shoegazing. Upon its release, the album received rave critical reviews and reached number one on the UK Independent Albums Chart. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
My Bloody Valentine's output during the band's miracle years between 1988 and 1991 still feels like a gift.
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The Quietus
It's had its own legacy with time too, playing out sometimes in quieter home-recorded corners, sometimes as extension of rough-and-ready bleary, angry yet beautiful sprawling. And it still sounds good.
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All Music
Isn't Anything captures My Bloody Valentine's revolutionary style in its infancy and points the way to Loveless, but it's far more than just a dress rehearsal for the band's moment of greatness.
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Drowned in Sound
I can bang on about how the record sounds all I like, yet I don’t think I have the vocabulary to describe how Isn’t Anything sounds. Maybe no one does. A case in point of how music can transcend language, just listen and that’s the only way to understand.
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Drowned in Sound
It's a happy 30th Isn't Anything. Long may you go on to confound, bedazzle and exceed expectations.
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Sputnik Music
For all those that haven’t heard the album that started it all, throw it on and play it loudly!
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Treble Zine
My Bloody Valentine’s ‘Isn’t Anything’ is grand and uncompromising.
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KEXP Radio
Isn’t Anything can haunt you or give you peace. In the band’s physical weariness and embracement of change, they found an astounding mix of daydreams and nightmares that are still keeping us up late 30 years later.
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Mr. Miniike's Tea-Sipping Reviews
This is one truly trippy and memorable listen, even if you have to take some time to assimilate the sound.
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Mark Prindle
Isn't Anything is the real masterpiece in this band's oeuvre.
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Peek-A-Boo Magazine
A raving nymphomania and out-of-body experience establishes them as absent-minded rulers of this daydream nation.
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Beats Per Minute
Isn’t Anything hangs together just as well. The songs are better than those on the more celebrated Loveless.
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The Student Playlist
Isn’t Anything crowned My Bloody Valentine pioneers of shoegaze, up there among Cocteau Twins and The Jesus & Mary Chain as some of the most commonly cited precursors of this genre, and since the release of this album many bands gave gone on in attempt to replicate something quite as lucid.
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Get Into This
Isn’t Anything . . . was instantly . . . where the scene looked for its inspiration.
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Daily Republic
“Isn’t Anything” offers listeners a few more places to grab onto that “Loveless” does not, but is more than just a workout routine.
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The AU Review
Isn’t Anything is a gritty, ethereal, lucid, melancholy work of art and the well executed songs, improve with every listen.
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The Girls Are
From the first beats of ‘Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)’ from their debut, Isn’t Anything, it’s a much sharper picture than before, crystal clear but still retaining its lucidity.
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Luddite Stereo
Isn’t Anything remains a magnificent album in its own right.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
'Isn't Anything', an album you can listen over and over to during the best bits, the weaker parts merely revealing a band still striving to perfect music that matched their soaring imaginations.
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