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Title:
Isn’t Anything
Description:
Scaruffi 8/10
In November of 1988, the band finally released their first full length album, Isn’t Anything (Creation, 1988 - Sony, 2002). The quartet at this point was perfectly balanced (even sexually, after the entry of bassist Deborah Googe), and it was finally able to build a bridge between the psychedelic music of yesterday and today. Soft As Snow was still an epigone of the Sixties (the Beatles Day In The Life) and Cupid Come takes its cue from the transcendent strumming of the Velvet Underground. Songs like You’re Still in a Dream and You Never Should push to the boundaries the use of the distortion pedal, the deformation of the rock and roll rhythm, and vocal harmonies’ beat. The culmination of ecstasy is indeed reached in the litanies that are whispered in an almost distracted tone by Butcher (Lose My Breath and No More Sorry).My Bloody Valentine succeeded in at least Several Girls Galore to chisel a memorable lullaby, and the band even touched REM’s folk rock in the second to last song on the album: Nothing Much to Lose.
It was precisely this languid, nuanced, spineless sound, which seems to be a test run of a song rather than its final version, that constitutes the true innovation brought about by My Bloody Valentine to psychedelic rock. The disc proved to have an enormous influence on the groups of the next generation; the latter day "dreampop” bands, primarily. Unlike their imitators, though, My Bloody Valentine did not embellish pop melodies with distorted guitars. They created melody from chaos (not just from guitars). The music of My Bloody Valentine becomes "ethereal” in retrospect, while many of their disciples tried to be "ethereal” a priori. In this sense, their brand of rock is one of the few that truly mimics the psychedelic ’60s, instead of borrowing the sounds “after the fact.” It is the process that matters, not the result. Theirs is therefore a search for musical textures, relative to that of Sonic Youth, not that of Jesus and Mary Chain.
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November of 1988, the band finally released their first full length album, Isn’t Anything (Creation, 1988 - Sony, 2002). The quartet at this point was perfectly balanced (even sexually, after the entry of bassist Deborah Googe), and it was finally able to build a bridge between the psychedelic music of yesterday and today. Soft As Snow was still an epigone of the Sixties (the Beatles Day In The Life) and Cupid Come takes its cue from the transcendent strumming of the Velvet Underground. Songs like You’re Still in a Dream and You Never Should push to the boundaries the use of the distortion pedal, the deformation of the rock and roll rhythm, and vocal harmonies’ beat. The culmination of ecstasy is indeed reached in the litanies that are whispered in an almost distracted tone by Butcher (Lose My Breath and No More Sorry).My Bloody Valentine succeeded in at least Several Girls Galore to chisel a memorable lullaby, and the band even touched REM’s folk rock in the second to last song on the album: Nothing Much to Lose.
Christgau A-
In November of 1988, the band finally released their first full length album, Isn’t Anything (Creation, 1988 - Sony, 2002). The quartet at this point was perfectly balanced (even sexually, after the entry of bassist Deborah Googe), and it was finally able to build a bridge between the psychedelic music of yesterday and today. Soft As Snow was still an epigone of the Sixties (the Beatles Day In The Life) and Cupid Come takes its cue from the transcendent strumming of the Velvet Underground. Songs like You’re Still in a Dream and You Never Should push to the boundaries the use of the distortion pedal, the deformation of the rock and roll rhythm, and vocal harmonies’ beat. The culmination of ecstasy is indeed reached in the litanies that are whispered in an almost distracted tone by Butcher (Lose My Breath and No More Sorry).My Bloody Valentine succeeded in at least Several Girls Galore to chisel a memorable lullaby, and the band even touched REM’s folk rock in the second to last song on the album: Nothing Much to Lose.
It was precisely this languid, nuanced, spineless sound, which seems to be a test run of a song rather than its final version, that constitutes the true innovation brought about by My Bloody Valentine to psychedelic rock. The disc proved to have an enormous influence on the groups of the next generation; the latter day "dreampop” bands, primarily. Unlike their imitators, though, My Bloody Valentine did not embellish pop melodies with distorted guitars. They created melody from chaos (not just from guitars). The music of My Bloody Valentine becomes "ethereal” in retrospect, while many of their disciples tried to be "ethereal” a priori. In this sense, their brand of rock is one of the few that truly mimics the psychedelic ’60s, instead of borrowing the sounds “after the fact.” It is the process that matters, not the result. Theirs is therefore a search for musical textures, relative to that of Sonic Youth, not that of Jesus and Mary Chain.
Christgau A-
November of 1988, the band finally released their first full length album, Isn’t Anything (Creation, 1988 - Sony, 2002). The quartet at this point was perfectly balanced (even sexually, after the entry of bassist Deborah Googe), and it was finally able to build a bridge between the psychedelic music of yesterday and today. Soft As Snow was still an epigone of the Sixties (the Beatles Day In The Life) and Cupid Come takes its cue from the transcendent strumming of the Velvet Underground. Songs like You’re Still in a Dream and You Never Should push to the boundaries the use of the distortion pedal, the deformation of the rock and roll rhythm, and vocal harmonies’ beat. The culmination of ecstasy is indeed reached in the litanies that are whispered in an almost distracted tone by Butcher (Lose My Breath and No More Sorry).My Bloody Valentine succeeded in at least Several Girls Galore to chisel a memorable lullaby, and the band even touched REM’s folk rock in the second to last song on the album: Nothing Much to Lose.
Christgau A-
Band or Artist:
My Bloody Valentine
Release Year:
1988
Barcode:
886973120828
Format:
MP3
Genre:
Rock
Alternative
Indie Rock
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Producer:
Kevin Shields
My bloody valentine
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AllMusic Rating:
4.5
Record Label:
Sony Music
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Recording Location:
United Kingdom
Number of Tracks:
12
Album Type:
Album
Date Added:
2018-06-28 17:01:05
Packaging:
Cardboard Sleeve
Date Added:
2018-06-28 17:01:05
