Instrumental (My Bloody Valentine song)

"Instrumental" (also known as "Instrumental No 1") is a song by the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. It was released as a limited edition free single with the first 5,000 LP copies of the band's debut studio album Isn't Anything, released on 21 November 1988 on Creation Records.

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The single's B-side, also titled "Instrumental" and known as "Instrumental No 2", demonstrates My Bloody Valentine's first known experimentation with dance music. "Instrumental No 2" features an uncredited sample of "Security of the First World", a song by Public Enemy from their 1988 studio album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Both "Instrumental No.1" and "Instrumental No.2" were remastered and reissued on the compilation album EP's 1988–1991 (2012).

"Instrumental No 1" and "Instrumental No 2" were composed by vocalist and guitarist Kevin Shields, with the latter being referred to as "a real acid-house track" by Shields and "an uncanny prophecy of [1990s] drum and bass jungle" by music critic Simon Reynolds. Shields later incorporated elements of dance music on My Bloody Valentine's 1990 single "Soon", which was released on both Glider (1990) and Loveless (1991), and elements of jungle music on their third studio album m b v (2013).