I flipped it over and there was Loveless by My Bloody Valentine on the other side and I was just "what the FUCK is this?" - it's my favourite start to an album ever, those four drumbeats and then everything just goes whooooaaaah, you know?
The whole point of Sonic Cathedral is that although it comes from a shoegaze background it does try to cultivate an open music policy; you don't just hear shoegaze, you hear its inspirations and the things it turned into.