My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Remastered 2CD) [Alt. Rock/Shoegaze]

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a r t i s t :: My Bloody Valentine
t i t l e :: Loveless
d a t e :: 2012-05-07
l a b e l :: Sony
g e n r e :: Alternative
s o u r c e :: CD
b i t r a t e :: 248 kbps avg
e n c o d e r :: LAME 32bits version 3.98.4 ([url]http://www.mp3dev.org/[/url]) -V0
t r a c k s :: 22
p l a y t i m e :: 97:09
s i z e :: 175.28MB

tracklist

Disc 1

1   Only Shallow                            4:17
2   Loomer                                  2:38
3   Touched                                 0:56
4   To Here Knows When                      5:31
5   When You Sleep                          4:11
6   I Only Said                             5:34
7   Come In Alone                           3:58
8   Sometimes                               5:19
9   Blown A Wish                            3:36
10  What You Want                           5:33
11  Soon                                    7:01

Disc 2

1   Only Shallow                            4:18
2   Loomer                                  2:38
3   Touched                                 0:56
4   To Here Knows When                      5:31
5   When You Sleep                          4:11
6   I Only Said                             5:34
7   Come In Alone                           3:58
8   Sometimes                               5:19
9   Blown A Wish                            3:36
10  What You Want                           5:33
11  Soon                                    7:01

releasenotes

There are two types of great records – those that change the world, and those
that are just plain perfect in every way. My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless is
the latter. After allegedly bankrupting Creation, the bands label, and taking
three years to make, Loveless was finally released in 1991. Conceived on a
strict diet of sex and sleep deprivation and sounding like nothing anyone had
ever heard before, it took the Spectoresque noisepop of the Jesus and Mary
Chain and refined it into a new sound – one that would come to be known as
shoegaze.

After twenty-one years with no new record, but one reunion tour just a few
years ago under their belts, My Bloody Valentine are back with the long
awaited versions of their albums Isn’t Anything, Loveless, and a compilation
of their many EPs all remastered by the band’s frontman, songwriter, producer,
and overall genius in Kevin Shields. Such is Shield’s perfectionism that two
remasters of Loveless are being released – one from the original tape and
another from the  inch analogue tapes.

You first realise Loveless is like nothing you’ve ever heard before in your
life about a second into the albums’ opening track, Only Shallow. Walls and
layers of swirling, drowning guitars fill the speakers. The remastered version
takes this to another level, with the two guitar tracks sounding more
distinct, and thus more together than ever before. Where Only Shallow started
as a clustered wall of noise, the remastered version only builds this wall
higher.

Moving on from Only Shallow, the next few tracks blend together like the
ingredients of the tastiest sandwich you’ve ever eaten. The reverb-heavy
Loomer, the almost droning, minute-long Touched, and one of the high points of
the album To Here Knows When. With Bilinda Butcher’s dreamy vocals and almost
non-existent lyrics with Kevin Shields‘ masterminded guitars it’s easy to get
lost to the sound of Loveless.

As Loveless goes on, through When You Sleep and I Only Said, a track stacked
sky high with the bands trademark layers and reverb to Come in Alone, Bilinda
Butcher’s finest point vocal-wise. The next song however, is the bittersweet
Sometimes as heard in Lost in Translation. To call Sometimes a masterpiece
would be an understatement. Managing to sound both raw and blissful, angry and
easy, noisy and soft, the sound of the plectrum picking the strings is clearly
heard underneath the distortion. Sometimes provides five minutes of blissed
out noisy dreampop.

If I’ve hit a number of clichés during the writing of this review, it’s
because there are often no other words to describe what Shields was doing
during the production of Loveless – so unique are the tricks of his trade that
you have to use words like ‘swirling’ or ‘dreamy’ to describe the sound.
Sometimes follow ups, Blown a Wish and What You Want fit these descriptions
perfectly, carrying on the sound that makes Loveless so distinctive and
wonderful.  It’s the album’s closer Soon, however, that puts the icing on the
cake - a seven minute long collage of guitars and synths, backed by Colm
O’Closoig’s almost polyrythmic drumming, making Soon seem almost like a dance
track.

So how does the remaster of Loveless compare to the original? Louder, more
distinctive and much more powerful the remastered versions (both of them,
remember) take Loveless and make it sound brand new all over again. Loveless
was the best album of all time BEFORE it was remastered, and it’s the best
album of all time after.

Kevin Shields remastered disc 1 from the original tape and disc 2 from the
original 1/2 inch analogue tape.

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