My Bloody Valentine - EPs 1988-1991 (2CD) [Alt. Rock/Shoegaze]

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a r t i s t :: My Bloody Valentine
t i t l e :: EP's 1988-1991
d a t e :: 2012-05-07
l a b e l :: Sony
g e n r e :: Alternative
s o u r c e :: CD
b i t r a t e :: 243 kbps avg
e n c o d e r :: LAME 32bits version 3.98.4 ([url=http://www.mp3dev.org/]http://www.mp3dev.org/[/url]) -V0
t r a c k s :: 24
p l a y t i m e :: 101:12
s i z e :: 177.54MB

tracklist

Disc 1

1   You Made Me Realise                     3:47
2   Slow                                    3:12
3   Thorn                                   3:37
4   Cigarette In Your Bed                   3:30
5   Drive It All Over Me                    3:06
6   Feed Me With Your Kiss                  3:57
7   I Believe                               3:02
8   Emptiness Inside                        2:50
9   I Need No Trust                         3:37
10  Soon                                    6:59
11  Glider                                  3:11
12  Don't Ask Why                           4:03
13  Off Your Face                           4:16

Disc 2

1   To Here Knows When                      5:49
2   Swallow                                 4:53
3   Honey Power                             4:33
4   Moon Song                               3:28
5   Instrumental No. 2                      4:44
6   Instrumental No. 1                      3:22
7   Glider (Full Length Version)           10:15
8   Sugar                                   4:16
9   Angel                                   4:42
10  Good For You                            2:31
11  How Do You Do It                        3:32

releasenotes

The unthinkable has happened: murmurs have surfaced that My Bloody Valentine
will finally be releasing a new album later this year, their first since
1991’s consciousness-shattering Loveless. At least that’s what enigmatic
frontman Kevin Shields has hinted at. My Bloody Valentine’s characteristic
manipulation of sound through guitars -- ranging from everything to violins
scraping the wrong note, to then strangely and beautifully coexisting with a
delay pedal-laden wall of sound -- has garnered them a well-deserved
notoriety, and we can only hope the rumors are true.

In the meantime, My Bloody Valentine has released a series of collections
cataloguing the almost thirty years they’ve been active, including reissues of
Loveless and Isn’t Anything, as well as a 24-track compilation consisting of
EPs and rarities previously only available through promos, and three
unreleased tracks. By definition reissues tend to be louder, and My Bloody
Valentine’s EPs & Rarities is no exception. Yet it hits as intensely as when
you first heard them so many years ago. If not more.

Sonorous “Feed Me With Your Kiss” exhibits the lesser-heralded but equally as
competent noise rock capabilities of My Bloody Valentine, thumping bass
resounding like a heart beating frighteningly out of control. Equally as
provocative as the original, the exception stems from the thrashing guitars
glossing a bit too much over Butcher and Shields’ vocals, becoming slightly
more muddled than usual. Heartbreakingly poignant “Cigarette In Your Bed”
still lingers with the bittersweet taste of a morning after, cold and
vulnerable. “Honey Power” paralyzes, Butcher’s lovely vocals washed over an
ambience of shoegaze guitars.

The full-length version of “Glider,” a B-side on the “Soon” “12, masterfully
display Shields’ finesse at crafting a hypnotic drone through the use of slide
guitar, oozing with a frenzy of delay pedals. “Instrumental No 1” is
deafening, punk rock in the truest sense of the word, while “Instrumental No
2” drifts off into a hazy world of haunting vocal loops and tight, solid
drumming.

The three previously unreleased tracks, “Angel,” “How Do You Do It” and “Good
For You” soar, more distortion-driven with the likes of fellow friends the
Jesus and Mary Chain and less shoegazey than Loveless. Butcher’s vocals
seamlessly complement an array of compressed guitars on “Angel,” a lofi
‘90s-esque track sounding like a flawless precursor to grunge. “How Do You Do
It” paints a dizzying varnish comprised of Shields’ pleading vocals, tense
drumming and roaring shoegaze guitars, while “Good For You” places the
listener in a trance of delicious distortion.

EPs & Rarities is less a compilation, more a catalogue of the scattered,
varied emotions that My Bloody Valentine manages to embrace with their varied
work. My Bloody Valentine has the unparalleled ability to establish a
universality within their listeners, resulting in a timelessness that few
bands can achieve.

All tracks are remastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Shields.

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