Very Rare My Bloody Valentine 'Isn't Anything' UK Original Vinyl LP w 7" single

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Incredibly rare chance to own this 1988 British shoegaze classic on original UK vinyl - the way it should be heard.  The LP is in very good condition, the sleeve still has sticker and is in very good condition with a small amount of wear.   7" single in excellent condition, plain sleeve showing some signs of age, but can be replaced. Creation Records - crelp 040
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Isn't Anything
Studio album by My Bloody Valentine Released 1 November 1988 Recorded 1988 in at Foel Studio in Llanfair Caereinion, Wales, Time Square Studios in New York, United States and and The Greenhouse in Vancouver, Canada Genre Alternative rock, shoegazing Length 37:48 Label Creation Producer My Bloody Valentine
Isn't Anything is the debut full-length studio album by My Bloody Valentine, released in November 1988 on Creation Records.
Background
After the band's original vocalist Dave Conway left in 1987, to be replaced by Bilinda Butcher, the band continued for a while in their previous noisy indie-pop style before Kevin Shields returned to their avant-garde roots, and began to explore the possibilities offered by the studio facilities available after signing to Creation Records in 1988. The first fruits of this experimentation was the single/EP "You Made Me Realise", released in July 1988, with Isn't Anything following later that year. Most of the album was recorded in a studio in Wales.While recording the album over a period of two weeks, the band got by on about two hours sleep a night. Bilinda Butcher described the effect of this on her vocals: "Often, when we do the vocals, it's 7:30 in the morning: I've usually fallen asleep and have to be woken up to sing. Maybe that's why it's languorous. I'm usually trying to remember what I've been dreaming about when I'm singing."
Style
Dave Thompson, in his book Alternative Rock, described the album's sound as "dry ice-piercingly intense guitar drones and hefty nods to miasmic hardcore soup, oozing a contrary trance-spun drone. Noise becomes beauty as feedback is layered over vocals over feedback ad infinitum". "Several Girls Galore" has been described as "a cubist take on the Jesus and Mary Chain". The album proved to be a major influence on many bands that would subsequently be described as "shoegazing".
Track listing
All songs written by Kevin Shields unless otherwise noted.
Side One: 
1. "Soft as Snow (But Warm Inside)"   Shields, Colm Ó Cíosóig 2:21 2. "Lose My Breath"   Bilinda Butcher, Shields 3:37 3. "Cupid Come"   Butcher, Shields 4:27 4. "(When You Wake) You're Still in a Dream"   Shields, Ó Cíosóig 3:16 5. "No More Sorry"   Butcher, Shields 2:48 6. "All I Need"   3:04
Side Two:
1. "Feed Me with Your Kiss"   3:54 2. "Sueisfine"   Shields, Ó Cíosóig 2:12 3. "Several Girls Galore"   Butcher, Shields 2:21 4. "You Never Should"   3:21 5. "Nothing Much to Lose"   3:16 6. "I Can See It (But I Can't Feel It)"   3:10
Total length: 37:48
Bonus 7"
1. "Instrumental"   3:19 2. "Instrumental"   4:36 Total length: 07:55
Reception
Upon its release, Isn't Anything received positive critical acclaim. Allmusic editor Heather Phares referred to the album as "the most lucid, expansive articulation yet of the group's sound" and said the album "captures My Bloody Valentine's revolutionary style in its infancy and points the way to Loveless, but it's far more than just a dress rehearsal for the band's moment of greatness", awarding the album four and a half stars out of five. Anthony Carew of About.com awarded the album a full five stars and described its style as "atonal, desconstructed, free-noise guitar playing" and noted that it had an "ethereal, spectral quality that radically reconfigured the predominant paradigms of rock'n'roll". Entertainment Weekly reviewer Ken Tucker reflected on Isn't Anything in 1993, gave the album an A- rating and said the "rafter-shaking guitar chords, the baleful vocals -- attests to their faith in romance, betrayal, and dizzy crushes. They nearly bury their somber melodies beneath surface noise. But unearthing the tunes is part of the listening pleasure." The remasters of Isn't Anything also generated favourable reviews with Taylor Parkes of The Quietus describing the album as "livid, lurid and lucid, it's the shattering racket of the moment, an audio snapshot of the overwhelmed senses, a noise like nothing you've ever heard, but everything you've ever felt" while Uncut's Stephen Troussé said "in rock algebra you might deduce that they'd worked out some new equation involving the barbed languor of the Mary Chain, the speedfreak urgency of Sonic Youth, and a dash of The Vaselines' sauce - but none of that accounts for the savagely sensual results." Isn't Anything has subsequently become regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time. The album has been included in The Guardian's list of "1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die" and ranked as number 16 in their "Alternative Top 100 Albums" list. The album was also ranked number 24 in The Irish Times' list of "Top 40 Irish Albums Of All Time," selected by Pitchfork Media staff as number 22 on their "Top 100 Albums of the 1980s" list, and listed at number 92 on Slant Magazine's list of "Best Albums of the 1980s". Uncut writer David Stubbs has called Isn't Anything "one of the most important, influential British rock albums of the eighties".

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