Original Sire Records version of the landmark 1991 shoegaze album famous for it's overwhelming walls of distorted guitar sound and buried, ethereal vocals. Frontman Kevin Shields spent two years meticulously crafting it's unique, shimmering textures using a signature whammy bar technique known as ""glide guitar."" The resulting masterpiece defined an entire genre and remains one of the most critically acclaimed and influential alternative rock records of all time.