My Bloody Valentine
Loveless

THE REVIEW

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless -

Who were My Bloody Valentine? Hallucinated Scottish psychonauts, starting from dark-gothic influences (listen to, just to get an idea, the first "This Your Bloody Valentine") and reaching sonic experimentation, rarefied noise, the psychedelia of the dark and anti-utopian '80s, that sound which many call "Shoegaze", the point of no return or rebirth of an entire way of understanding pop and rock.

"Loveless" is an album often cited and praised everywhere, and not without reason! With this LP released in 1991, My Bloody Valentine, authors until then of the grandiose "Isn't Anything" and some very valid EPs, exacerbated their noise inclination and visionary approach applied to music. Sounds that recall, on one hand, the most dreamlike Pink Floyd and, on the other, the guitar-heavy feedback sound characteristic of geniuses like Jesus & Mary Chain and Velvet Underground. It's so unnecessary to tediously and pedantically list all the tracks contained in the album and their titles because, over time, I've developed a conviction as obvious as it is true: "Loveless" should be appreciated in its entirety, like a hallucinated and disorienting suite that, gently, leads us into the recesses of our minds, our unconscious to finally meet the nothingness or the everything that upholds and governs the world.

Mystical considerations aside, although difficult to overlook whenever I listen to this album, "Loveless" presents itself as original and shocking for the following reason: it is an album capable of perfectly and sublimely combining walls of guitar sounds with graceful and delicate Pop melodies, as well as the minimalistic post-punk approach with the acid influences of yesteryears. A step ahead, therefore, compared to the song format, albeit extreme, typical of their cousins Jesus & Mary Chain.

Not surprisingly, "Loveless" is often cited by representatives of various and diverse music genres: from Type O Negative to Primal Scream, from Dinosaur Jr. to Katatonia. A magnum opus that cannot leave indifferent even lovers of sonic proposals that have little or nothing in common with ours and, surely, one of the most significant and important albums of the last twenty years.

Words already read or heard? Absolutely true! But, for once, trust these blessed reviewers and give yourself a gift destined to last forever: purchase, if you haven't already, a copy of "Loveless" and you will enjoy it beyond belief! Albums like this have the rare quality of stunning at first listen but, in a second time, know how to be loved beyond all limits. An open door to another dimension... that's what My Bloody Valentine were.

PS: I harbor strong and incurable doubts about their alleged musical return. I may be an incurable romantic, but I believe it necessary, for genius groups like this, to stop where they stopped and consign their name and sounds to myth and legend.