My Bloody Valentine: Loveless

Copy at Case Memorial Library
Wired wrote: "We can't be the only ones whose first response to My Bloody Valentine's Loveless was to smack the stereo, assuming some part somewhere must be skipping, warped, or broken. How else to explain those noises? Then, out of the swirling guitar haze — sweet melodies!" ("Playlist," 9/08, p. 74).
And Sasha Frere-Jones wrote in the New Yorker: "Guitars like a choir of bells and mortar shells! An angel on Vicodin singing in a gorgeous falsetto! Kevin Shields, the band’s leader, became something of an Orson Welles after 'Loveless,' constantly delaying a follow-up album (which never came) and fuelling speculation regarding his one classic album. Did he really make all those noises with nothing but a whammy bar and distortion? (He says so.) There hasn’t been a My Bloody Valentine show since 1992, but the band has re-formed to curate part of the 'All Tomorrow’s Parties' festival and to play a handful of live dates. On record, the band’s cherry-chocolate barrage of noise is detailed and dizzying; onstage they sound like an airplane engine."