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My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine Chicago is a rock band formed in Dublin in 1983. Since 1987, the band’s lineup has consisted of founding members Kevin Shields (vocals, guitar, sampler) and Colm Ó Cíosóig (drums, sampler), with Bilinda Butcher (vocals, guitar) and Debbie Googe (bass). Their music is best known for its merging of dissonant guitar textures with ethereal melody and unorthodox production techniques and helped to pioneer the alternative rock subgenre known as shoegazing during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Following several unsuccessful early releases and membership changes, My Bloody Valentine signed to Creation Records in 1988. The band released a number of successful EPs, including You Made Me Realise (1988), Glider (1990) and Tremolo (1991), and two studio albums, Isn’t Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991), with the latter often described as the band’s magnum opus and one of the best albums of the 1990s. However, the band was dropped by Creation after its release due to the album’s extensive production costs. In 1992, My Bloody Valentine signed to Island Records and recorded several albums worth of unreleased material, remaining largely inactive. Following the departure of Googe and Ó Cíosóig in 1995, the group disbanded in 1997.

In 2007, Shields announced My Bloody Valentine had reformed and the band subsequently toured across Europe, Asia, and North America. Following reissues of both Isn’t Anything and Loveless, and the release of the compilation album EP’s 1988–1991 (2012), My Bloody Valentine’s long-delayed third studio album, m b v, was released on 2 February 2013, 22 years after the release of their last full-length album.

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