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Product Identifiers

Record LabelDomino

EAN0887830015929

eBay Product ID (ePID)10052244259

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

Era1990s

Run Time5828 Sec

FormatCD

Release Year2021

FeaturesImport, Studio Recording

GenrePop, Alternative, Rock

StyleShoegaze, Ethereal

TypeAlbum

ArtistMy Bloody Valentine

Release TitleLoveless

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2

DistributionIntegral/Cinram Novum

Number of Tracks22

Country/Region of ManufactureIreland, England

ReviewsIncluded in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's.", "...Simply the Most Astounding-Sounding Album Produced Last Year..."-Rating: a, Ranked #7 in Melody Maker's List of the `Top 30 Albums of 1991.', "...One of Rock's Greatest, Most Innovative and Most Celebrated Albums...", "The album holds its own as one of the great rock albums, period....Its extensive 'glide guitar' and curious lack of low end add up to a soundworld no-one could ever hope to replicate.", "...While most current rock prizes crisply articulated digital sounds and rhymes, My Bloody Valentine offers pure defiance: songs in which thickly layered guitars and nearly indecipherable voices add up to a tuneful murk, elusive but memorable...", 4 Stars - Excellent - "...guitarists Bilinda Butcher and Kevin Shields gently breathe pretty tunes into the thick, sweet waves of droning distortion....In My Bloody Valentine's magical kingdom, cacophany is the mind-altering path to beauty...", 5 stars out of 5 -- "The result is a kind of sonic rapture, infinitely deep and wide and spiritually charged....There are great pop songs in here, too...", 5 stars out of 5 -- "On LOVELESS, a sublime sense of disorientation comes as standard, not least on 'What You Want' and 'When You Sleep,' where pile-driving guitars surge...", Ranked #18 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "LOVELESS twisted the sonic clutter rattling within Kevin Shields' imagination into an epic reality.", Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", Ranked #16 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.", Ranked #14 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...overcame their influences and fulfilled their promise....a record at once so exhausting yet exhilarating, so beautiful yet ugly, so soothing and swirling yet chaotic and dissonant....It will alter your perception of everything music can be...", 5 stars out of 5 -- "All the hard lines of rock'n'roll -- the riff, the lyric, the beat -- have been collapsed into something freer....LOVELESS was -- and remains -- inimitable.", Ranked #39 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime", 4 Stars - Very Good - "...the last word in noise-pop....amounts to a virtual reinvention of the guitar....The rock-is-dead argument could very well stop here...", "This Dreamy Tsunami of Sound Blew Minds, from Kurt Cobain to Radiohead to Isis."

Additional InformationThe band's masterpiece balances sensuality and innovation in its lush sonics and forward-thinking production.