On 21 November 1988, my bloody valentine released their full-length debut studio album, “Isn't Anything”. Its innovative guitar and production techniques consolidated the experimentation of the band's preceding EPs and would make the album a pioneering work of the subgenre known as shoegazing.
Isn't Anything is regarded by many as among the greatest albums of the 1980s. The album has been included in The Guardian's list of 1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die and ranked at #16 in their Alternative Top 100 Albums list. The album was also ranked #24 in The Irish Times' list of Top 40 Irish Albums of All Time, selected by Pitchfork staff as #22 on their "Top 100 Albums of the 1980s" list and listed at #92 on Slant Magazine's list of Best Albums of the 1980s. Uncut writer David Stubbs has called Isn't Anything "one of the most important, influential British rock albums of the eighties." In its 2013 update, the NME ranked the album at 187 in the list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Pitchfork selected the album as the fourth-best shoegaze album of all time.