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Needless to say that when My Bloody Valentine do decide to crank their amps up to eleven and crash down on their drums with bone-crushing force (primarily in the album's second half), they hit with a storming and monstrous force unlike any they'd ever exhibit on record again, though tracks like "When You Sleep" from Loveless and B-Sides like "Honey Power" come ever so close.
Much, much more than a precursor to the Dublin, Ireland band's monolithic 1991 release Loveless, My Bloody Valentine's 1988 debut Isn't Anything stands tall and proud as a testament to the shoegaze masters' simply unparalleled abilities to sweep with a soaring and ethereal grace while simultaneously rocking so hard and loud that listeners should be required to sign a waiver.
Isn't Anything's Powerful Punk-Rock Sound
Something which has clearly occurred to the band (rounded out by lead singer/guitarist Kevin Shields, vocalist/guitarist Bilinda Butcher, bassist Debbie Googe, and drummer Colm O'Ciosoig) which has, with it's recent 2008 reunion tour and beyond, taken to having earplugs handed out to it's loyal fans and concert-goers at the venue doors.
A sound all My Bloody Valentine's own, and one that can be heard at it's purest and most moving on MBV's Isn't Anything. An album which [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while not the quartet's finest hour, nevertheless stands as it's (as a unit) most powerful and collaborative work, as opposed to it's follow-up Loveless, which seems more like a reconstruction of the unearthly sounds floating around in Kevin Shields' head.
But never does the continuous cacophony of it all become monotonous, and neither does it exhaust or overstay it's welcome [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as the band, in it's singular fashion, marries their hard-hitting sound with an almost heavenly gracefulness, as found in the airborne chord progressions and changes, the flowing bass playing, and the pummeling (though never scenery chewing) drum rhythms.
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A most generous act indeed, as the band (in both a live setting and on record), certainly show a tendency towards being as loud as humanly possible, though not simply for the sake of being loud. Rather, just as with class acts like The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine's power and sheer force comes from the band's massive, heavily-layered, and detailed sound. Something which becomes all the more potent with at max volume.
And, of all their records (Loveless included), nowhere does this concept hold more sway than on Isn't Anything, where even the more delicate [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], restrained, and hauntingly beautiful moments, like Bilinda Butcher's spectral and downright gorgeous "Lose My Breath" and "No More Sorry", along with Kevin Shields' brooding garage-rocker "Cupid Come", glide with a sublime and awe-inspiring force.
Kevin Shields' And My Bloody Valentine's Singular Force
The sort of force that can be found in spades on white-noise grunge dirges like "Feed Me With Your Kiss", galloping punk numbers like "Sueisfine", Richter scale-rating thumpers like "Several Girls Galore", fiery and explosive meltdowns like "You Never Should", and cathartic and climactic head-bobbers like "Nothing Much To Lose", all of which pound the listener in a whopping one-two-three-four-five punch.