1991 was witness of an album that you can love or hate. It has been twenty years since the release of My Bloody Valentine’s masterpiece ‘Loveless’. This record has been named one of the greatest creations of the 90’s by several music magazines, and rightly, the mixture of sounds that this album gives us is a strange experience, yet at the same time, beautiful. Songs like “sometimes” and “to here knows when” are a clear demonstration of my previous statement.
The other day, I was asked the question that every music lover wants to hear: “What are your favourite albums?” ‘Loveless’ was obviously one on my choices. But enough about me.
This was the second (and sadly, the last) album released by Kevin Shields, Colm Ó Cíosóig, Bilinda Butcher and Debbie Googe as a group. According to their own members, it took two whole years to record, and several record companies to accept the vision and the creative temperament that Kevin Shields had. In an interview he stated: “I have been listening the same things for years, the bands do not dare to be different. It’s like they don’t care anymore. That is why I have made this record”.
When the album came out the world was ruled by grunge and that horrible music specially made for you to dance. Only a few selected members of the world wide audience knew about the “shoegaze”, where noisy guitars and shoe-gazers musicians were masters of the use of effect pedals and musical distortion. That was the musical scene where My Bloody Valentine was born and raised. That was its maternal nest, its home.
Although, the band is no longer together, you can tell the legacy of this album with famous bands like M83, Wild Nothing, Deerhunter, and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. 'Loveless' is truly a masterpiece.
The other day, I was asked the question that every music lover wants to hear: “What are your favourite albums?” ‘Loveless’ was obviously one on my choices. But enough about me.
This was the second (and sadly, the last) album released by Kevin Shields, Colm Ó Cíosóig, Bilinda Butcher and Debbie Googe as a group. According to their own members, it took two whole years to record, and several record companies to accept the vision and the creative temperament that Kevin Shields had. In an interview he stated: “I have been listening the same things for years, the bands do not dare to be different. It’s like they don’t care anymore. That is why I have made this record”.
When the album came out the world was ruled by grunge and that horrible music specially made for you to dance. Only a few selected members of the world wide audience knew about the “shoegaze”, where noisy guitars and shoe-gazers musicians were masters of the use of effect pedals and musical distortion. That was the musical scene where My Bloody Valentine was born and raised. That was its maternal nest, its home.
Although, the band is no longer together, you can tell the legacy of this album with famous bands like M83, Wild Nothing, Deerhunter, and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. 'Loveless' is truly a masterpiece.
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