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When You Sleep
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Wikipedia article
"'When You Sleep'" is a song by rock band My Bloody Valentine on the album 'Loveless'. It was the first single released from the album.
Background and composition
In an interview with 'Select', Shields explained the stop-start nature of his recording, using "When You Sleep" as an example:
The layered vocals on "When You Sleep" were born out of frustration with trying to get the right take. Shields commented that "The vocals sound like that because it became boring and too destructive trying to get the right vocal. So I decided to put all the vocals in. '(It had been sung 12 or 13 times)'." He explained:
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