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My Bloody Valentine - Glider Audio CD

A fair review of the My Bloody Valentine "Glider" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all My Bloody Valentine reviews here, or go back to the My Bloody Valentine tabs.

My Bloody Valentine Band: My Bloody Valentine
Title: Glider
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Release Date: 1990-08-31
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Soon 2: Glider 3: Don't Ask Why 4: Off Your Face

A Quick Relaxing EP
Though with this EP "Glider" much criticism is afoot here. My Bloody Valentine are so influential in music and specifrically shoegaze that anything negative doesn't seem right to many. People complain over pricing, short duration, and availability of songs elsewhere. Though this album lacks leangth its wealth in hazey guitar and jingles is more then enough to make up for it.

The pricing yes a bit hefty for its four track limitation, but ask anyone who buys singles or EPs to begin with this isn't uncommon to be spending upwards of 10$ for a few tracks. Each track represents an imaginative slice of music, that 'glides' nicely over the surfaces of room filling it with submissiveness. One can't help but enjoy this if they already like the group[s most recognized album "Loveless". "Glider" doesn't exceed a new boundry in the groups catalog, but it does maintain a trademark sound worthy of obtaining even in such a small portion. Plus it's a good short sample of the band, and makes for a good long lasting loop on a playlist.

If you like multiple effects, experimentation, artsy stuff, noisy music in general you'll no doubt want to pick this up. .


Great for MBV Fans
On Glider you can hear the band begin to develop their technique for out of this world "shoegaze" guitar tones, as opposed to a lot of their earlier EPs. This EP (like most MBV EPs) was written and released prior to either of their albums. If you're already a fan of Isn't Anything and Loveless this would be a good place to go next.


Sweet, Romantic
A repetitive hollow melody that will haunt me until the end. "Soon" is clearly not one of my favourites. Maybe that's the main reason why many people think "loveless" and its eps are so overrated.
But both "glider" and "tremolo" are the best introduction to this band. And sure after listening to "loveless" and "isn't anything" you will return to them.
The song "glider" stands besides the most powerful instrumental classics.


Not worth $9.98. Not even close.
Not only does it only have four songs and clocks in at under twenty minutes, one of those songs is a seven-minute track taken directly from the album LOVELESS. The EP GLIDER is highly overrated. So, if you already own LOVELESS, you'll only be getting about 13 minutes of new material from this EP. Unless you're a diehard fan of My Bloody Valentine, or a huge fan of the song "Soon," then you better stay far, far away from this EP (unless you find it for dirt cheap at a second-hand store; in that case, pick it up immediately). Buy ISN'T ANYTHING (see my review) or LOVELESS instead. They're both wonderful albums.
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An amazing surprise
It was from Sire, who was putting out great stuff at the time, and I thought the cover was cool. I think I bought this on sight back when it came out. I was totally blown away the instant I heard "Soon. " It was really something to try to wrap my brain around that wall of sound and the otherworldly warblings of Kevin and Bilinda. It's been a long time since I ripped that CD out of its old school cardboard case, but I remember hearing it for the first time like it was yesterday. Glider was truly groundbreaking.


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