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Symphonic Chaos". Melody Maker. December 1990. And it won them acclaim from Brian Eno, who, in a lecture at New York's Museum Of Modern Art, described it as 'the vaguest piece of music ever to get into the charts'. If Steve Reich or Glenn Branca had been responsible for it, he continued, they would have been given an award by the classical music establishment. a b "The 50 Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time". Pitchfork. p.5. Archived from the original on 22 November 2016 . Retrieved 23 September 2020. Welsh, April (4 November 2011). "Classic Albums: My Bloody Valentine – Loveless". Clash Music. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016 . Retrieved 17 August 2016. Preceded by the EPs Glider (1990) and Tremolo (1991), Loveless reached number 24 on the UK Albums Chart and was widely praised by critics for its sonic innovations and Shields' "virtual reinvention of the guitar". [8] However, after its release, Creation owner Alan McGee dropped the band from the label as he found Shields too difficult to work with, a factor alleged to have contributed to the label's eventual bankruptcy. My Bloody Valentine struggled to record a follow-up to the album and broke up in 1997, making Loveless their last full-length release until their eventual reunited effort m b v in 2013.

Kot, Greg (12 December 1991). "My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (Sire)". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015 . Retrieved 14 November 2015. The vocals, equally provided by Shields and Butcher, are kept relatively low in the mix. They are for the most part highly pitched, [45] although at times Shields sang the higher register and Butcher the lower. [46] According to Shields, because the band had spent so long working on the album's vocals, he "couldn't tolerate really clear vocals, where you just hear one voice", thus "it had to be more like a sound." [47] Butcher said of her "dreamy, sensual" style vocals: "Often when we do vocals, it's 7:30 in the morning; I've usually just fallen asleep and have to be woken up to sing." [39] To aid this effect, Shields and Ó Cíosóig sampled Butcher's voice and reused it as instrumentation. [48] The layered vocals on "When You Sleep" were born out of frustration with trying to get the right take. Shields commented that "The vocals sound like that because it became boring and too destructive trying to get the right vocal. So I decided to put all the vocals in. (It had been sung 12 or 13 times)." [28] He explained: a b "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork Media. 28 September 2022 . Retrieved 30 September 2022. When he was auditioning manufacturers, he found that many seemed not to care about the quality of their product. “When I played the original version from ’91, it sounded more exciting than all these cuts that I was achieving now,” he says. “[The companies] just make vinyl and they take advantage of the fact that 50 percent of people who buy it don’t even listen to it. And the other 50 percent are only getting into it for the first time. So you have a situation where only 25 percent of people can even tell if it’s crap or not.” Repeatedly during the interview, he points to the Beatles’ recent mono vinyl box set as one that was done right. (That said, he feels it may have fallen on deaf, or tone-deaf ears. “The average Beatles fan is a fool, to be honest,” he says. “They couldn’t tell the difference from a stereo or mono version.”)....

McCabe, Brian. "Songs for the loveless". Metro Times. Archived from the original on 5 February 2018 . Retrieved 5 February 2018. a b DiCrescenzo, Brent. "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s: 'Loveless' ". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 14 September 2005 . Retrieved 7 July 2007. Kot, Greg. "My Bloody Valentine at the Aragon review". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 5 October 2017 . Retrieved 17 June 2017. The final hurtle this time was in physical production. He found that manufacturers each had unique sounds. “If you go to a French manufacturer, it’s gonna come across a lot softer sounding and warmer than if you go to a British manufacturer, where it’s gonna come across a lot more high end,” he says. They eventually settled on a German facility because it was the most accurate. Throughout the process he went through various test pressings and later realized that full runs also sounded different, so they began doing short runs of 100. “We literally have a few thousand records lying around,” he says. “All experiments and failures.”... DiMartino, Dave (21 February 1992). "Loveless". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015 . Retrieved 14 November 2015.

The band Japancakes recorded a cover album of "Loveless" which includes every song from the original in the same sequence. The cover album was released on Darla Records in 2007. [108] Richardson, Mark (11 May 2012). "My Bloody Valentine: Isn't Anything / Loveless / EPs 1988–1991". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 17 April 2015 . Retrieved 17 April 2015. European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.8, no.48. 30 November 1991. p.23. OCLC 29800226– via World Radio History. O'Hagan, Sean (20 June 2004). "OMM: The 100 Greatest British Albums: 20. 'Loveless' My Bloody Valentine". The Observer. Archived from the original on 2 October 2006 . Retrieved 27 November 2007.a b Richardson, Mark (17 November 2003). "Top 100 Albums of the 1990s: 'Loveless' ". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 22 June 2007 . Retrieved 5 August 2007. Thill, Scott. "An Open Love Letter to My Bloody Valentine's Loveless". Wired . Retrieved 5 November 2021.

Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): MBV 0217 XX8S A3 =MATT@ALCHEMY= BH97159=01A₁ REWIGLP159 Hodgkinson, Will (30 May 2003). "Timeless tunesmith". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 20 July 2021 . Retrieved 8 December 2007. The 1991 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll". The Village Voice. 3 March 1992. Archived from the original on 4 August 2022 . Retrieved 10 November 2007. Dansby, Andrew (24 September 2003). "Kevin Shields Found on "Lost" ". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 1 October 2007 . Retrieved 5 August 2007.Rondeau, Bernardo (29 January 2003). "My Bloody Valentine–Loveless". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 13 August 2007 . Retrieved 24 August 2007. My Bloody Valentine masterpiece 'Loveless' turns 30". Far Out Magazine. 5 November 2021 . Retrieved 5 November 2021. Winograd, Jeremy (4 November 2021). "No Love Lost: My Bloody Valentine's 'Loveless' at 30". Slant Magazine . Retrieved 28 March 2023.

Dimery, Robert; Lydon, Michael (7 February 2006). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 0-7893-1371-5. a b Fadele, Dele (9 November 1991). "Bloody Awe-Full!". NME. p.32. Archived from the original on 10 March 2000 . Retrieved 3 February 2017. Raggett, Ned. "My Bloody Valentine–interview with KUCI". KUCI. Archived from the original on 12 September 2010 . Retrieved 23 August 2007.

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Shields and Butcher became afflicted with tinnitus, and had to delay recording for further weeks while they recovered. Concerned friends and band members suggested this was a result of the unusually loud volumes the group played at their shows, which Shields dismissed as "ill-informed hysteria". [23] Although Alan McGee was still positive about his investment, the 29-year-old Green, who by this time was opening the label's morning post "shaking with fear", became a concern to his co-workers. Publicist Laurence Verfaillie, aware of the label's inability to cover further studio bills, recalled Green's hair turning grey overnight, which she attributed to the album. [23] a b "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 22 September 2020. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020 . Retrieved 22 September 2020. Offiziellecharts.de – My Bloody Valentine – Loveless" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 28 May 2021. BH97159-01A1 REWIGLP159 Nash, Stewart (3 November 2016). "My Bloody Valentine's Loveless turns 25". Creation Records . Retrieved 5 November 2021.