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THE REVIEW
genre: Zen Shoegaze
Listening to this album is undoubtedly the greatest sensory and metaphysical experience a person can have. It is also certain that these frequencies have the extraordinary ability to lead the spirit towards its essence. The non-place of sound before the sound. The destabilization of the auditory process, liquefaction of the sound material. All of this is not imagination, it is physicality in its purest form, it is the harmonization of the body-mental state in an endless flow of lost reminiscences, elementary cosmic chaos and mass of plasticized lunar dust that flows in the veins slowly like the speed of light. Clusters of ethereal dirt alternate with joyful timeless dissonances (Loomer). Sublimation of noise, ecstasy, and enchanting catastrophe in an alternation of drama and mystical contemplation (Sometimes); intergalactic cocktail of incorporeal orgasms that lie, return, vanish in the vastness of pleasure (To Here Knows When).
The excellent production also deserves considerable consideration: sixteen recording studios and over ten sound engineers for around three hundred days of work supporting the ideas of the genius mind of Kevin Shields (guitar, vocals, sampler), producer and author of an unusual and revolutionary mix: layers and overlayers of guitars upon guitars, volumes pushed beyond the unbelievable (Only Shallow), tails of loops that loop themselves, electronic samples and chamber noise to thicken the indistinct sound magma so heavy as to feel its lightness, Butcher's voice like an angel that comes and spreads its seed in the universe (Blown A Wish).
My Bloody Valentine induce a state of heroin-like, hieratic passivity. And Loveless is proof of the existence of the divine, a unique work that even escapes itself. Like wandering in the coils of thoughts made of honey-flavored anesthetic gases. Like being fascinated by the presence of the void. Zen. I have written nothing.
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My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless is celebrated as a profound shoegaze album that offers an unparalleled sensory and spiritual experience. Through revolutionary production techniques and layered guitar textures, Kevin Shields creates an immersive soundscape that oscillates between cosmic chaos and mystical contemplation. The album is praised for its complex textures, ethereal vocals, and innovative sound engineering. It transcends typical music listening, inducing a state of mesmerized passivity likened to a divine experience. Loveless stands as a unique and timeless masterpiece in alternative music.
My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine are an Irish alternative rock band formed in Dublin in 1983, widely credited as pioneers of shoegaze. Led by Kevin Shields and featuring Bilinda Butcher, Colm Ó Cíosóig and Debbie Googe, they are best known for the 1991 album Loveless and for influential EPs and albums across the late 1980s and 2013's MBV.29 Reviews
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By Taxirider
"Loveless should be appreciated in its entirety, like a hallucinated and disorienting suite that gently leads us into the recesses of our minds."
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