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Track List
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
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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First Released
1991
Alternative Rock
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Loveless is the second studio album by alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. Released on 4 November 1991, Loveless was recorded over a two-year period between 1989 and 1991 in nineteen recording studios. Lead vocalist and guitarist Kevin Shields dominated the recording process; he sought to achieve a particular sound for the record, making use of various techniques such as guitars strummed with a tremolo bar, sampled drum loops, and obscured vocals. A large number of engineers were hired and fired during the process, although the band finally gave credit on the album sleeve to anyone who was present during the recordings, "even if all they did was make tea", according to Shields.[1] The recording of Loveless is rumoured to have cost £250,000, a figure that came close to bankrupting the band's record label Creation Records.
My Bloody Valentine's relationship with Creation Records deteriorated during the album's recording, and the band was removed from the label after the record's release due to the difficulty and expense of working with Shields. While Loveless did not achieve great commercial success, the album was well received by critics. Widely regarded as a landmark work of the shoegazing genre, the record has been cited as an influence to several artists, and by critics as one of the best albums of the 1990s.
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Despite this record being the best part of 20 years old, it's as dense and inpenetrable as ever. It’s like trying to explain why Jackson Pollock’s Full Fathom Five is what it is, or push the case for isolationist textures in modern sculpture; or even trying to describe acid house to a badger. There really wasn’t, and still isn’t anything quite like My Bloody Valentine.
Formed in Dublin in 1984, My Bloody Valentine quickly moved from the C86 shambling indie template that had dominated that period. It took a slight shift in personnel and a contract with Creation. Within a week, the band recorded their landmark EP, You Made Me Realise, which nudged them more into the realm of the likes of Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth. Soon, giddy journos were gabbling on about sonic cathedrals and getting generally quite excited.
Within that year came the band’s first 'proper' album, Isn't Anything. Shards of noise, underwater guitars and vague lyrics all combined with a certain disorientating charm. As if that wasn’t accomplishment enough, three years later via drama (it nearly bankrupted Creation), delays and added expectation came Loveless. It was the album that would lift MBV into the pantheon of the greats and in a perfect universe would be battling it out between Pet Sounds and OK Computer in the greatest-album-ever-made polls.
Despite urban myths surrounding the recording – they were recording in a tent covered in duvets, they’d gotten into hip hop, all the band went mad to varying degrees – it still sounds incredible. Washes of guitars and noise overwhelm what 'songs' were actually beneath them. Having charted at 41 with the staggering Soon, they released what even Brian Eno then considered the ''most vaguest song ever'' in To Here Knows When. Creation thought the band were joking when they first heard it; sounding like someone had taped it on a wonky cassette player. In the context of Loveless, it makes sense, like one long bleary dream with almost symphonic levels of noise.
Now, the band are back and playing across the world, giving a new generation of ears a risk of tinnitus. There’s talk of a new album. For the meantime, get this magnificent masterpiece and play very, very loud indeed.
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Loveless is the second studio album by alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. Released on 4 November 1991, Loveless was recorded over a two-year period between 1989 and 1991 in nineteen recording studios. Lead vocalist and guitarist Kevin Shields dominated the recording process; he sought to achieve a particular sound for the record, making use of various techniques such as guitars strummed with a tremolo bar, sampled drum loops, and obscured vocals. A large number of engineers were hired and fired during the process, although the band finally gave credit on the album sleeve to anyone who was present during the recordings, "even if all they did was make tea", according to Shields.[1] The recording of Loveless is rumoured to have cost £250,000, a figure that came close to bankrupting the band's record label Creation Records.
My Bloody Valentine's relationship with Creation Records deteriorated during the album's recording, and the band was removed from the label after the record's release due to the difficulty and expense of working with Shields. While Loveless did not achieve great commercial success, the album was well received by critics. Widely regarded as a landmark work of the shoegazing genre, the record has been cited as an influence to several artists, and by critics as one of the best albums of the 1990s.
User Album Review
Despite this record being the best part of 20 years old, it's as dense and inpenetrable as ever. It’s like trying to explain why Jackson Pollock’s Full Fathom Five is what it is, or push the case for isolationist textures in modern sculpture; or even trying to describe acid house to a badger. There really wasn’t, and still isn’t anything quite like My Bloody Valentine.
Formed in Dublin in 1984, My Bloody Valentine quickly moved from the C86 shambling indie template that had dominated that period. It took a slight shift in personnel and a contract with Creation. Within a week, the band recorded their landmark EP, You Made Me Realise, which nudged them more into the realm of the likes of Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth. Soon, giddy journos were gabbling on about sonic cathedrals and getting generally quite excited.
Within that year came the band’s first 'proper' album, Isn't Anything. Shards of noise, underwater guitars and vague lyrics all combined with a certain disorientating charm. As if that wasn’t accomplishment enough, three years later via drama (it nearly bankrupted Creation), delays and added expectation came Loveless. It was the album that would lift MBV into the pantheon of the greats and in a perfect universe would be battling it out between Pet Sounds and OK Computer in the greatest-album-ever-made polls.
Despite urban myths surrounding the recording – they were recording in a tent covered in duvets, they’d gotten into hip hop, all the band went mad to varying degrees – it still sounds incredible. Washes of guitars and noise overwhelm what 'songs' were actually beneath them. Having charted at 41 with the staggering Soon, they released what even Brian Eno then considered the ''most vaguest song ever'' in To Here Knows When. Creation thought the band were joking when they first heard it; sounding like someone had taped it on a wonky cassette player. In the context of Loveless, it makes sense, like one long bleary dream with almost symphonic levels of noise.
Now, the band are back and playing across the world, giving a new generation of ears a risk of tinnitus. There’s talk of a new album. For the meantime, get this magnificent masterpiece and play very, very loud indeed.
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