My Bloody Valentine – loveless (1991/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

My Bloody Valentine – loveless (1991/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:35 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Domino Recording Co

loveless is widely considered a flawless whole and rightly regarded as a masterpiece; a 1990s equivalent to Pet Sounds, In A Silent Way or Innervisions, a record constructed by exploring the edges of what a recording studio is capable of. It is a record best experienced as a whole, in one sitting – a listening experience like no other and unmatchable in its sonic brevity.

While Jesus & Mary Chain invented a sort of pop-surf noise with a retro spin, My Bloody Valentine offered its most avant-garde and experimental side, which eventually led to shoegaze. Along with Colm Ó Cíosóig on the drums, Deb Googe on bass, and Bilinda Butcher on vocals and the guitar, Kevin Shields made his debut with a sort of rock noise drawing from Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. Signed by Creation Records, Alan McGee’s label that released in 1984 the first single of the Reid brothers (Upside Down), My Bloody Valentine dropped their sonic bases on a first album titled Isn’t Anything, released in late 1988. The wall of sound was already pretty strong, but the more dreamlike option only truly appeared in their following two EPs, Glider (1990) and Tremolo (1991), and most importantly on their masterpiece: Loveless (1991). When this album − that many consider to be one of the most important records of the 90s – dropped, it was hard not to be stunned by such a guitar-filled cathedral, the vocals buried under tons of saturation and reverb, the apocalyptic rhythmic and the repeating motifs. An American who emigrated from Dublin with his parents at the age of 10, Shields sculpts sound like no one before him. Behind a form of extremism that never lost an ounce of violence over the years, Loveless is able to touch the listener’s soul and senses. Nothing seems vane nor gratuitous in this piece, that owes as much to Jesus & Mary Chain and the Cocteau Twins than Steve Reich. One may actually wonder if this birth of shoegaze didn’t also signal its death. After all, didn’t they pack everything in this 48-minute masterpiece, leaving no room for their followers? The band itself didn’t survive this (rather critical than popular) triumph, and slowly died off in the years that followed… – Marc Zisman

Tracklist:
1-01. My Bloody Valentine – only shallow (04:16)
1-02. My Bloody Valentine – loomer (02:38)
1-03. My Bloody Valentine – touched (00:56)
1-04. My Bloody Valentine – to here knows when (05:30)
1-05. My Bloody Valentine – when you sleep (04:11)
1-06. My Bloody Valentine – i only said (05:34)
1-07. My Bloody Valentine – come in alone (03:58)
1-08. My Bloody Valentine – sometimes (05:19)
1-09. My Bloody Valentine – blown a wish (03:36)
1-10. My Bloody Valentine – what you want (05:33)
1-11. My Bloody Valentine – soon (06:58)

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