My Bloody Valentine

My Bloody Valentine turned guitar noise into something blissful. Kevin Shields' 'glide guitar', bent with the tremolo arm into woozy, swirling waves of sound, washed over hushed, half-buried vocals from Shields and Bilinda Butcher, creating the blueprint for shoegaze.

Isn't Anything set out the sound, and Loveless, recorded over two years at enormous cost, is regarded as one of the greatest albums of the 90s and reportedly nearly bankrupted Creation Records. The long-awaited follow-up, m b v, finally arrived 21 years later in 2013.