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Named after a slasher flick, My Bloody Valentine aren't as heavy or violent as their name suggests. They're a unique mixtureof
dream pop, ambient, and layers of droning fuzzy guitars, and pioneers of shoegaze, a term coined by the British Press.It's no
surprise though, My Bloody Valentine embody the term perfectly, sublime waves of grand guitar sound, timid boy/girlvocals,
and basically ignoring the audience live.
My Bloody Valentine formed in 1984, Dublin, Ireland, with childhood friends Kevin Shields and Colm O'Ciosoig. They spent
thefollowing years releasing EPS and a min ...read more
Named after a slasher flick, My Bloody Valentine aren't as heavy or violent as their name suggests. They're a unique mixtureof
dream pop, ambient, and layers of droning fuzzy guitars, and pioneers of shoegaze, a term coined by the British Press.It's no
surprise though, My Bloody Valentine embody the term perfectly, sublime waves of grand guitar sound, timid boy/girlvocals,
and basically ignoring the audience live.
My Bloody Valentine formed in 1984, Dublin, Ireland, with childhood friends Kevin Shields and Colm O'Ciosoig. They spent
thefollowing years releasing EPS and a mini-album while still gathering themselves and constantly jumping labels. By 1987
theirmale vocalist Dave Conway left, and replaced with guitarist/vocalist Bilinda Butcher, a vital addition to their sound, which
waschanging to an airier pop, influenced by The Jesus & Mary Chain. In 1988 they finally released their first album,
Isn'tAnything. The following years they gathered a following in both Britain and the US, but in 1989 they disappeared to
gowork on their follow-up.
Rumours went around in the press that Shields was a perfectionist as time kept on passing without a sophomore album.
Thedelay was a mixture of indeed perfectionism and recording sessions never really taking off, as Kevin Shields notes,
"Thereason it took so long was because we started out on the wrong foot and never got back on the right one. Right up until
thelast minute, we kept thinking we would be finished in a couple more months - two years of thinking we would be finished in
acouple more months." Finally, in 1991, Loveless was released, as was an estimated $500 000 studio bill for
CreationRecords, bankrupting the label. The album was released to critical acclaim and a dedicated fanbase. Today, it's cited
as oneof the best albums of the 90s, and as one that redefined what could be done in pop music.
The band basically disappeared afterwards, with no activity from My Bloody Valentine. O'Ciosoig and Googe left between1993
and 1997. Shields had reportedly created albums then shelved them, because of his fear of releasing anything inferiorto
Loveless under the Valentine name. He's worked with Primal Scream and on songs from a movie in recent years,
butnothing else. The band hasn't officially broken up, Butcher and Shields still members. Butcher, Shields and O'Ciosoig
wererumoured to be recording new material between 2003 and 2004, but nothing has surfaced. A boxset was rumoured to
bereleased between late '05/early '06, but nothing still. « hide |
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