Mind-blowing period. And mind-blowing magazine: Les Inrockuptibles, Nov/Dec ’91.
My Bloody Valentine is releasing “Loveless” and discussing it in a long interview, with stunning photos of the band. We were already over-excited (we had been waiting 3 years since “Isn’t Anything”), a bit disappointed (we didn’t immediately recognise the “Isn’t Anything” sound), and a bit stupid too: how could we not realise that we were being spoiled with such an avalanche of superb records reviewed that very same month?
My Bloody Valentine “Loveless”, Nirvana “Nevermind”, Mudhoney “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge”, Teenage Fanclub “Bandwagonesque”, Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Weld” (still my favourite Neil Young album by far), Saint Etienne “Foxbase Alpha”, Swervedriver “Raise”, Babes in Toyland “To Mother” (Nirvana / Hole / Babes in Toyland / L7, that’s pure grunge, the rest isn’t).
Add to that the first news about the beautiful “Spooky” from Lush, to come just a few months later, plus an interview with one of my favourite fiction authors, the deeply missed Paul Auster, and you get an exceptional moment in the life of music, rock, books and the arts in general.
We didn’t know it.
We were inside it.
It was happening then.
