My Bloody Valentine represents the most beautiful and spiraling complexity between night and day, moon and sun, anger and love. Their music is unparalleled.
Loveless is without question the most perfect album (by definition) of all time. There isn’t one chord, one note, one song that should not exist as it already does. It’s literally impossible to imagine in any other way. Loveless transcended music to another planet that had never been explored. In fact, their sound is so unique that another subgenre was created: Shoegaze. The Verve, Ride, and Lush were all fans and followed this style. Quite simply, rock music would not be what it is today without My Bloody Valentine. Their list of disciples is neverending and it continues to grow in this comeback period of psychedelic music with bands like Times New Viking, Vivian Girls, No Age, M83, and The Horrors running rampant.
My Bloody Valentine reintroduced color to music and created a new level of noise. Like the Velvet Underground and Sonic Youth before them, My Bloody Valentine made noise hard and soft, loud and stunning. Kevin Shields perfected this sound with his excellent abuse of the tremolo. The tremolo creates the spiraling sensation in their music, but Shields mastered it best in "Slow" and "Only Shallow." However, the tremolo wasn’t the only instrument that influenced their manipulated sound, Belinda Butcher’s nearly silent vocals gave the band sensuality. She sings with an endearing and nearly haunting whisper that solidified this parallel of fantasy and horror.
They rode crashing waves of white noise to unpredictable conclusions, particularly since their noise wasn't paralyzing like the typical avant-garde noise rock band: it was translucent, glimmering, and beautiful. All Music
Daydreaming and nightmare became the same state of mind as guitars enveloped naive melodies and drums smashed vocal harmonies. Piero Scaruffi
Loveless fires a silver-coated bullet into the future, daring all-comers to try and recreate its mixture of moods, feelings, emotion, styles and, yes, innovations. Dele Fadele
Whenever anyone uses the phrase swirling guitars, this record is why. A testament to studio production and single-minded perfectionism, Loveless has a layered, inverted thickness that makes harsh sounds soft and fragile moments vast. SPIN
I've long dreamt of an album that was Like Loveless , but more , but I haven't found it. And so many hundreds of albums have tried...Perhaps this is the sound of a single idea perfected. We should move on and continue to explore the vast spectrum of sound and feeling music provides, but we'll always return to Loveless for what it alone can deliver. Pitchfork
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