My Bloody Valentine Vinyl Records – Loveless, Isn't Anything & Essential Albums on Vinyl

My Bloody Valentine are the band that invented shoegaze. Formed in Dublin in 1983 around Kevin Shields and Colm Ó Cíosóig, they relocated to London in the mid-80s and, after a few false-start early records on Lazy and Creation, released the genre-defining EPs You Made Me Realise and Feed Me with Your Kiss in 1988. The two albums that followed — Isn't Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991) — rewrote what guitar music could sound like.

Loveless took Kevin Shields three years and almost bankrupted Creation Records. Walls of glide-bent guitar, submerged vocals, drum patterns recorded then reversed and looped, textures nobody had ever made a guitar do before. The band then disappeared for 22 years before quietly self-releasing m b v in 2013 — a record that picked up almost exactly where Loveless left off. MBV on vinyl is a defining audiophile experience: the textures, the dynamic range and the spatial detail of Shields's productions are designed for analogue. The Domino remasters on 180g are the current-press standard.

Best My Bloody Valentine Albums on Vinyl

Loveless (1991)
Their masterpiece and one of the most influential records of the 1990s. Only Shallow, When You Sleep, To Here Knows When, Soon — the album that turned shoegaze from a sub-genre into a movement. The Deluxe Edition 180g LP is the essential pressing.

Isn't Anything (1988)
The debut album. Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside), Lose My Breath, Feed Me with Your Kiss, You Never Should — the record where the MBV sound first locked in. Punchier and more song-shaped than Loveless, and an essential prequel.

m b v (2013)
The 22-years-later return, recorded between 1996 and 2012 and released without warning on the band's own website. She Found Now, Only Tomorrow, In Another Way — a record that vindicated the long wait completely. Picked up almost exactly where Loveless left off.

EP's 1988–1991 (2012)
The compilation of the band's classic-era EPs and singles, including You Made Me Realise (the song-and-feedback drone that became live legend), Feed Me with Your Kiss, Glider and Tremolo. Essential context for the two studio albums.

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