Reissued May 21, 2021
Domino
1xLP
Before My Bloody Valentine nearly bankrupted their label layering guitar parts on top of one another and changed the face of rock music and dorm-room listening habits forever in the process with Loveless, they were a hazy guitar band in a trans-Atlantic music landscape filled with them. With the term “shoegaze” yet to be coined, My Bloody Valentine’s debut Isn’t Anything still managed to set themselves apart from other bands by making their guitars sound like a jet engine where others simply jangled. It made their rhythm section sound more like a Brian Eno project than a rock band that also happened to include some of the cloudiest, dreamlike vocals this side of the Cocteau Twins. With Isn’t Anything, My Bloody Valentine made a masterpiece that gets often overlooked in comparison to it’s follow-up, but deserves equal praise for its ability to simply not sound like anything else.