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My Bloody Valentine albums Isn't Anything and Loveless, originally released in 1988 and 1991 on Creation Records, are being reissued all-analog under the supervision of founding member/producer Kevin Shields through his own label.

Both albums, but particularly Loveless are considered "shoegazing" classics and feature washes of mesmerizing, jangly electric guitars, well-placed noise and melodic intensity. The particularly great sounding Loveless was engineered by Alan Moulder who's worked with The Jesus and Mary Chain, Arctic Monkeys, Blonde Redhead and many others.

For these two releases, Mr. Shields specifies that the records will be cut from the original analog tapes using a Studer A80 fitted with a preview head and a Neumann VMS80 lathe "...for a full analog signal path". Dammit! That's the way every record for which a useable analog tape exists should be cut!

Both of these albums were reissued back in 2003 by Plain Records a division of Runt, which also distributes 4 Men With Beards. The people involved have impeccable musical taste, but unfortunately they could care less about source integrity. Most sound "okay" but are probably cut from CDs. That's a guess because the label doesn't provide any information about sources or who cut or anything. The big problem there is that once labels like Plain and 4 Men With Beards "lock up" a title, a label that does care about using original analog tapes, can at best, get the rights at 45rpm. So sometimes while you might complain that you would be happy to get a record at 33 1/3, that is impossible.

Both of these new MVB reissues, scheduled for release in January of 2018, can be ordered directly from the My Bloody Valentine website. They will be pressed on 180 gram vinyl and come in heavy weight tip-on style gatefold jackets with poly-lined printed inner sleeves.

Thank you Mr. Shields for doing this correctly!