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The Sound of the Future: My Bloody Valentine

Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 6 February 1992

"WE'D LIKE TO COME OUT FROM the shadow of the greatest things ever done," declares Kevin Shields, the soft-spoken, bookish-looking leader of My Bloody Valentine. "We'll never do anything better than the Beatles, but what we could achieve is, if you play our thing and they play theirs, ours is – ours is now and theirs is then."

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