Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

Loveless, My Bloody Valentine's second album, came out on Creation in the UK on 4 November 1991, with Sire putting it out in America, and it took from February 1989 to September 1991 to make. Kevin Shields ran the sessions like a mad scientist, bending notes with his glide guitar technique, twisting tunings, sampling and fussing over every layer, while the band worked through nineteen studios and a string of engineers.

What came out is less a set of songs than a weather system: guitars smeared into a warm, woozy roar, the voices of Shields and Bilinda Butcher sighing somewhere deep inside it, Colm Ó Cíosóig's drums and Debbie Googe's bass pulsing underneath. Critics raved about what Shields had done to the guitar, and it reached number 24 in the UK. Then Alan McGee dropped them from Creation, finding Shields too hard to work with, and there was no follow-up album until m b v in 2013. It has long since become the landmark of shoegaze.

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