1991年にセカンド・アルバム『ネヴァーマインド』でオルタナ・ロックをインディーからメジャーへと一気に押し上げ、グランジの先駆者として一世を風靡した伝説のバンド、ニルヴァーナによるファースト・アルバム『ブリーチ』。この原点的作品の発表から20周年を記念した「デラックス・エディション」が登場。プロデューサーのジャック・エンディノ監修による最新リマスターの他、ボーナストラックとして、1990年2月2日にポートランド(Pine Street Theatre)で行われた未発表ライヴを完全収録。さらに48ページブックレット付の永久保存盤。
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Spin - "BLEACH is truer to 'grunge' than what followed, with bratty nihilism and sludgy dynamics dominating."
Q - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he stellar factor was Cobain: his voice, his songwriting, even his underrated guitar playing -- all lent Nirvana peculiar qualities that ensured this music transcended constraints of time and fashion."
Record Collector - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'About A Girl' is still the most Beatles-like Cobain moment."
Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Beginning with a feedback overture and ending with full-on instrument destruction, the live set is a snapshot of a menacingly feral band about to become a beast."
Rovi
Twenty years after its initial release Nirvana's debut album 'Bleach' gets the remastered treatment. Original producer Jack Endino returned to the studio with the original analogue tapes to oversee the remastering process, while in addition cleaning up a previously unreleased live show from 1990 which is also featured. The album's mix of sludgy, down-tuned punk influenced metal and Cobain's classic songwriting at first sold only 40,000 copies and it wasn't until their second album 'Nevermind'- which kick started a whole new genre and propelled the band into the mainstream - that 'Bleach' became a hit.|
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