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My Bloody Valentine

Reviews 5

Karl Smith On Mind Over Mirrors’ Undying Color

My Bloody Valentine's mbv Track By Track By Ned Raggett

The Echo Of Youth: My Bloody Valentine Live

My Bloody Valentine

Isn't Anything, Loveless reissues

La Route Du Rock: My Bloody Valentine And The Jolie Laide Festival

Articles 15

Black Sky Thinking

Shoegaze Revivals I Have Known, by Sonic Cathedral’s Nat Cramp

As Sonic Cathedral prepare for a run of birthday gigs and a box set release, founder Nat Cramp reflects on how shoegaze went from being a dirty word to darlings of Gen Z via a new generation of artists like Whitelands, pictured here. Have a listen to a specially-compiled Spotify playlist here.
Low Culture Essay

Low Culture 8: Why The For Carnation Should Not Stand In Slint’s Shadow

Slint’s Spiderland is regularly cited as one of the most important albums of the last 30 years, yet its shadowy twin The For Carnation remains defiantly under the radar. Joe Banks makes the case for its re-evaluation while pondering the evolution of post-rock
Anniversary

How Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR Delivered An Enema To The 1990s

Lee Brackstone of White Rabbit books looks back 20 years to the first great rock & roll record of the 21st Century and Primal Scream's finest moment

A Quietus Interview

Country Cousin: Thurston Moore On The Power Of The 12 String

Ahead of the ambitious Galaxies 12x12 project at the Barbican on April 14, Thurston Moore talks to John Doran about why he has formed an orchestra of 12 strings and how this relates to Sun Ra, Glenn Branca and his roots in No Wave...

Black Sky Thinking

The Sine That Celebrates Itself: On Electronic Shoegaze

Ben Cardew revisits the fertile but short-lived shoegaze/electronic music crossover that gave us Seefeel and (eventually) M83 and Ulrich Schnauss
Black Sky Thinking

25 Years After Its Imperial Phase: Who Killed Shoegaze?

With the release of MBV's Loveless, 1991 marked the high water mark for shoegaze before the music press turned its back with a nose-high snort of derision. Ben Cardew looks over the history of the genre and asks if its decline was simply because the music just got boring
Black Sky Thinking

In Another Way: My Bloody Valentine’s Rhythmic Invention

Following the appearance of their self-titled third album in our end of year list, Ben Cardew looks back over My Bloody Valentine's catalogue to find a band as innovative with drums as they were with guitars
Anniversary

Control Slips Away: My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything Revisited

My Bloody Valentine's debut album Isn't Anything was always overshadowed by the expensive Loveless. Now, a quarter of a century after its release, Ned Raggett explores the sound of a band in flux
A Quietus Interview

Joy & Futurism: Kurt Ralske Of Ultra Vivid Scene Interviewed

Jon Dale talks to the Ultra Vivid Scene front man and artist about dream pop and "German Futurist Cinema"
A Quietus Interview

“Not Doing Things Is Soul Destroying” – Kevin Shields Of MBV Interviewed

Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine pulls up a chair with Taylor Parkes and gives one of his lengthiest and most revealing interviews to date
A Quietus Interview

New Seasons Turn: An Interview With The Bent Moustache

Greg Neate speaks to Ajay Saggar, frontman of The Bent Moustache and veteran sound man, about his new album, live mixing for My Bloody Valentine and the genius of Mark E. Smith
Anniversary

All That Useless Beauty: 25th Anniversary Of Lush’s Mad Love

Graham Bendel writes a love letter to 90s shoegazers Lush, and in the process wonders if they were better, in fact, than My Bloody Valentine…
Black Sky Thinking

A Decade In Review: David Stubbs Asks Whatever Happened To Pop?

The Quietus kicks off a series of essays looking back at the past decade with David Stubbs' look at the evolution of what we call pop
Black Sky Thinking

Mr Agreeable: Like Ten Thousand Spoons When All He Needs Is A Gun

Over a breakfast of lightly grilled kippers Mr Agreeable casts his sparkling eye over news concerning Razorlight, Oasis and My Bloody Valentine.

A Quietus Interview

Metal Gaze – From My Bloody Valentine To Nadja via SunnO)))

Drawing on influences as wide as doom, ambient, electronica, shoegaze and black metal, Joe Stannard flings the curtains back and lets the SunnO))) pour in on this peculiar genre. SunnO))) portrait by Koen Jacobs

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 15

Baker's Dozen

Life In Death: Shane Embury’s Baker’s Dozen

Napalm Death stalwart Shane Embury takes Kez Whelan through his thirteen favourite records, from his friendships with Repulsion and Cardiacs to his early years shaped by Venom and AC/DC
Baker's Dozen

Master Blaster: Kevin Richard Martin’s Baker’s Dozen

The artist also known as The Bug talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about the records that changed his life, from anxious encounters with African Head Charge in Weymouth to being blasted by Swans at the ICA
Baker's Dozen

Pitch Perfect: Pat Nevin’s Favourite Music

Footballer, DJ and now writer, Pat Nevin talks Richard Foster through his 13 favourite records, including the time he got the fear from Delia Smith being at John Peel's birthday party, and being asked to write lyrics for Vini Reilly
Baker's Dozen

Taking Stock: Colleen’s Favourite Albums

In this week's Baker's Dozen, Colleen (aka Cécile Schott) takes Jude Rogers on a journey through her musical life, from car tapes to heartbreak, taking in Arthur Russell, Love, Low, GZA, The Green Arrows and much more along the way.
Baker's Dozen

Mob Deep: Michael Imperioli’s Favourite Music

Actor, writer, producer and musician Michael Imperioli – best known for playing Christopher Moltisanti in The Sopranos – chooses his 13 favourite tracks, and discusses the use of music in the series. Simon Price listens in an unmarked van across the street.
Baker's Dozen

Not Just Random Doof: Jas Shaw’s Favourite Music

Jas Shaw marks the release of the first album from his new project Shaw & Grossfeldt with a Quietus Baker's Dozen, featuring an Aphex Twin love story, why dance music isn't an albums game, and how a Resident Advisor podcast helped him through chemotherapy
Baker's Dozen

Amorphous Choices: Mira Calix’ Favourite Music

Jude Rogers quizzes sound sculptor Mira Calix about her favourite albums, from MBV to Britten, Stravinsky to Laura Cannell, and PJ Harvey to the bountiful joys of the Warp back catalogue
Baker's Dozen

These Vibrated Me: Josh T. Pearson’s Favourite Music

Josh T. Pearson guides Nick Hutchings through the personally sacred songs of his Baker's Dozen, from the Bad Seeds to Gorecki, Spiritualized to MBV and why Texas ranchers were no fan of Morrissey's work ethic
Baker's Dozen

A Document in Time: Neil Halstead Of Slowdive’s Baker’s Dozen

With Slowdive reformed and about to release their fourth album (as well as playing Field Day and Roskilde), Neil Halstead tells Joe Clay about the gateway albums that influenced him the most. Photo by Ingrid Pop.
Baker's Dozen

In Place: Yann Tiersen’s Favourite Albums

With his ninth album, EUSA, out now, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist takes Fred Jage-Bowler from the Velvets to Bill Callahan via NEU!, Vashti Bunyan and Joanna Newsom on a tour of his favourite records
Baker's Dozen

Free, Open Spaces: Brian Eno’s Favourite Records

Before he releases his new album The Ship, the composer, producer and artist gives William Doyle a tour of some of his favourite records and tracks, reflecting on how they've shaped his own approach to music

Baker's Dozen

“Music In Which To Get Truly Lost”: Daniel Avery’s Favourite Records

The Phantasy producer and DJ goes from mid-teen discoveries to recent acquisitions as he writes us his own Baker's Dozen of top albums, EPs and mixes ahead of his b2b set with Erol Alkan at fabric later this month
Baker's Dozen

A Sucker For Melody: Martin Carr’s Favourite Songs

With an excellent new solo album, The Breaks, just released, and a London gig tonight, the former Boo Radleys and bravecaptain man has a trawl through the finest 7"s in his record collection with Joe Clay
Baker's Dozen

Flip Your Wig: Bob Mould’s Favourite Albums

With his new, eleventh solo album Beauty & Ruin just released, the Hüsker Dü and Sugar man gives Nick Hutchings his top 13 records
Baker's Dozen

Parallel Worlds: Peter Strickland’s Favourite Albums

On the occasion of the Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Varga director releasing Wasp Boutique, a collaboration between Art-Errorist and Zsolt Sőrés, on his record label, and with a new feature film on the way, he sits down with Colm McAuliffe to talk 13 formative favourites

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