My Bloody Valentine - "Loveless"

The album, made by the band, that nearly bankrupt Creation Records after songwriter Kevin Shields took 3 years and recorded in no less than 19 studios to meet his vision. This album was the band's second and last album.

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After My Bloody Valentine had undergone their massive metamorphosis from twee indie-poppers to guitar noiseniks on 1988's Isn't Anything, their eagerly anticipated follow-up was a long time coming. Rumours abounded of massive studio bills, and when the album finally arrived, it listed 18 engineering credits. At times, Loveless is 90 per cent pure studio overmatter--but that doesn't matter. Band leader Kevin Shield's element was the guitar overdub, creating an intoxicating headrush of varispeed, warped, electro-static effects. "To Here Knows When" remains unmatched as an experiment in just how much sonic dissonance a simple pop melody can bear, while Bilinda Butcher sings drowsily as if concussed by the sweet noise. Loveless isn't a case of form over content--the lyrical subject matter of dazed infatuation is perfectly illustrated by the snowblind guitar sound. After this, MBV moved to Island and remained notoriously unproductive for years, perhaps unsure how to top this.

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To simply call this album the apotheosis of the shoegazing scene--that brief epoch of U.K. indie-rock in which bands turned away from melodic clarity and instead chased after the incendiary rapture of sheer guitar-driven noise--would be anunderstatement. Loveless is the sound of what might've happened if Brian Eno had produced Daydream Nation. Or perhaps it's the thundering ambience of Sister recorded backwards. Whatever the case, rarely has such a pristine, hypnotic recordhad such an ungodly amount of sonic tonnage. Opening with four quick beats from some kind of skeletal kick-drum and then proceeding through eleven gleaming movements of titanic distortion and severe melancholy, MBV's great wall of guitar architecture on this recording stands as a monument to the brilliance of its inventors. Released at roughly the same timethat Nirvana birthed Nevermind, Loveless could not have been more different and yet as utterly relevant in shaping future soundscapes. A heavy, heavy record.

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"A lot of people say the reason My Bloody Valentine didn't make another record is because we couldn't. That's mostly true, but not because we couldn't make another record, but because I never could be bothered to make another record unless I was excited by it. And just by fate or whatever, that never happened." - Kevin Shields interviewed in 2007 after news that MBV might record their third album, the first since 1991

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Selected Amazon reviews:

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It may take a few listens to get into - but even the monstrous and poppy epic "Soon" will have the hairs on your back standing on end after the first listen. A timeless "classic" in the true sense of the word.

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After hearing "Sometimes" on the Lost in Translation OST, I knew that I loved this band... This is the sort of album you can put on in a dark room an just sit there in awe for about an hour, just letting their stunningly gravelly soundscapes wash over you.

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A defining moment of music from the late 20th century. Play loud at night. Get taken somewhere else.

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Make no mistake: Loveless is an acquired taste. I vividly recall my Dad, about twenty seconds into To here Knows When irritably looking up from his newspaper and bringing his hand down firmly on the CD player convinced that it was stuck. I didn't correct him.

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This is quite simply one of the greatest albums I have ever heard. Nothing else sounds remotely like it, even other MBV material. I bought it back in 1991 when it first came out and it has rarely been far from my turntable/CD player/iPod over the last 15 years.

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The audio equivalent of taking heroin.

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This is unpleasent noise from start to finish.

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Check out Amazon to listen to sample of the album before downloading.

Tracklisting:

01. Only Shallow
02. Loomer
03. Touched
04. To Here Knows When
05. When You Sleep
06. I Only Said
07. Come In Alone
08. Sometimes
09. Blown A Wish
10. What You Want
11. Soon


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