My Bloody Valentine – Soft As Snow: Peel Sessions and Rare Tracks (Limited Edition 12-Inch Album on Yellow Vinyl)

This album presents My Bloody Valentine’s legendary set, recorded for BBC Radio 1’s John Peel Sessions, at Broadcasting House, in London, on 25 September 1988.

A pivotal, early document of the shoegaze pioneers, the session captured live versions of tracks from the band’s soon-to-be-released debut album, Isn’t Anything. The four-song set included I Can See It (But I Can’t Feel It), Lose My Breath, (When You Wake) You’re Still in a Dream and Feed Me With Your Kiss. These performances possess a vigour that the album versions don’t, with these takes fizzing with an energy that can really be felt.

Alongside the Peel session tracks are a selection of rarities. Highlights include a truly stunning take on Wire’s Map Ref. 41°N 93°W. Taken from the 1996 covers album Whore: Various Artists Play Wire, it finds the band in post-Loveless mode as they deconstruct the original, taking all the edges, smoothing them off and taking the original into a washed out, other worldly space.

Also included, are the instrumentals that accompanied the first 5,000 copies of Isn’t Anything. Instrumental No. 1 fizzes with a punk exuberance and walls of noise, but it’s with Instrumental No. 2 that the band really mix things up. Featuring a sample from Public Enemy’s Security of the First World, the song charts My Bloody Valentine’s first steps into making truly genre-blurring music. Something they would later go on to do with both their Loveless and m b v albums.

Track Listing

Side One

1. I Can See It (But I Can’t Feel It) *
2. Lose My Breath *
3. When You Wake (You’re Still in a Dream) *
4. Feed Me with Your Kiss *
5. Sugar **
6. How Do You Do It **

Side Two

1. Angel **
2. Map Ref. 41°N 93°W **
3. Instrumental No. 2 **
4. Instrumental No. 1 **
5. We Have All the Time in the World **

* John Peel Session, 25 September 1988

** Rare tracks

Format: Vinyl / 12” Album (Coloured Vinyl)

Label: Waste Management

Catalogue No: TONY014-Y

Barcode: 0602561291530

Release Date: 20 Mar 2026