m b v

I really love the album Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, so I was excited for this album after a long time of the band not releasing music. Unfortunately, I find this album just alright though. For a relatively short album it feels very repetitive, it makes me wonder why they felt that they had to put out this specific album at the time after such an extended period of silence. I don't dislike it necessarily, I just find it kind of underwhelming. Standout Tracks: only tomorrow, who sees you, new you

Was pretty into it until those last two or three songs. Christ almighty what a bunch of noise at the end of an album I otherwise kind of liked

After the last MBV album I thought they'd grow on me with a few listens but I feel the same about this one as I previously did, don't think I'm going to become a proper fan. There's some quite good tunes here and I generally like overdriven guitars with loads of feedback but the vocals and general feel of it is just a bit too spacey for me to be really interested. It's not a bad album, they aren't a bad band, but I'm not converted.

Nothing here I particularly dislike but at the same time nothing is grabbing me. All a bit wishy washy but maybe that's what shoegaze is I think the previous album of theirs was better and I have that a 3 so 2.5 here

3.5, i see the influence of most of my favorite albums but it's just a bit boring at times at face value

3/5. It starts off the same, front and center distorted guitar with no lyrics, just ineligible words and I was afraid it was going to be a whole album of that. Thankfully, halfway through, we are introduced to a front and center bass and drums and synthesizer. Still ineligible and frustrating lyrics but at least the emotion entered and it felt like an enjoyable album to listen to, even beautiful at times.

December 20, 2023 HL: “who sees you”, “new you”, "in another way" Sad that 1001 Albums forgot about this, the entry for Loveless in the newest edition says they haven’t released an album since then -__- So probably not essential for any non-MBV fans, but I found this pretty enjoyable. How’s 21st-century My Bloody Valentine? Kinda similar to 90’s MBV but a bit more danceable 🕺 3.5

torn between liking it and hating it first of all, this is not My Chemical Romance -- turns out I have been confusing them this whole time this album has a very distinct sound that was somewhat popular at the time, with a lot of distortion and detune sometimes it sounds great, like this emotional wall of sound sometimes it seems the song does not where it is going and just piling on sound on top of another

hum that was something

I suppose if you were a MBV fan and waited 20+ years for a follow-up to their best work, hearing this album would feel gratifying. To me, it felt as though they are a one-trick-pony. Having said that, they do the trick well, and there are some tracks I will listen to again. But overall, I find them too sound mostly like pointy background music. And frankly, I hated the airplane experience of the last track.

Has a nice experimental rock vibe, but there's too much of one thing through the album: super filtered distorted guitar. It's fine for a couple tracks. A full album of it was a bit much.

last 2 tracks were kinda cool, i'm just not a big mbv fan.

It was on track for a light four, because I quite liked the feeling the album was creating, but it got fumbled in the end, so only a 3. But, I expected to not like this one very much, so I guess it did slightly better than I expected. My favourite song was Who Sees You, I think. I have trouble telling them apart from memory.

Well this is a strange one. My immediate thought was WTAF is this? And I kept on thinking that until I got to 'New You' which absolutely blew me away. I've played it time & time & honestly it's hypnotic. But then the rest of the album reverted to being a horrendous, discordant mess. So then I've thought that it needs a couple more plays to see if it will grow on me, but it's still one superlative, entrancing track on an album that's otherwise the most gad-awful insult to my eardrums. So how to rate this? 5 stars for the one brilliant track, minus stars for the rest if I could so I'll have to settle in the middle.

Didn't expect something as conceptual, sparse and quiet from a band called My Bloody Valentine, but it was nice. This album was a bit of a block for me b/c I didn't really have much to say, so I guess this is my review to just get to the next album.

This is kind of a weird one for me in terms of how I feel about it. There are definitely things that I like. I think that the instrumentation, while a bit noisy at times, is well-made and I can tell that the people at My Bloody Valentine have a talent for making music. Everything else about this album just doesn't click for me though. The singing, if you can call it that, is weird and slow and I don't think I like it much. I don't exactly know what this album is supposed to be about. Obviously, not every album needs to be high concept, but I'm just not sure what they were going for. I'm not the biggest fan of the whole feel of the album, but I can see why others like it. I just don't really "get it". It's well made and I can appreciate the work that went into it, especially with how long it took to get this thing to finally come out, but I just don't think it's for me. I'm definitely willing to give this band another try later for some of their other albums that are also on this list, but I don't really see why this one specifically needs to be on here. Low 3/5.

“Loveless” and “m b v” came out 22 years apart. For my bloody valentine’s 10 year breakup and subsequent reunion to be bookended by two such acclaimed albums is pretty remarkable. It’s rare for a band to maintain success and/or critical acclaim over three decades, much less return to those heights after such a hiatus. As of this writing, shoe gaze is still listed in my summary as one of my least favorite genres. But I gave “Loveless” a three, and I enjoyed “m b v” at least as much if not more.

I listened to this last week and had a decent angle for a review. I completely forgot what it was. I heavily skimmed the album again and all I remember is a soupy fog of sustained, somewhat distorted guitar.

Quite enjoyed it, very different to my usual

A little flat at times but glimmers of intrigue.

Love the vibes, but can get tiring after awhile. 3/5

Had not heard of this band or heard any of their music before. Overall, I like this album. I get a little tired of heavily distorted guitars at times, but I can't tell if that's because rock music for decades has been so saturated in distortion that maybe my ears are a little tired of it, or if it's more about what I'm hearing here. Either way, it's a minor thing, and the music this group writes and performs is quite good. I particularly liked "is this and yes". It has an ethereal quality to it, as do many of the tracks on this album. "if I am" is another one that stood out for me.

5.22.25 going back through to listen to previous albums and look, shoegaze and this sort of crunchy sound is good cleaning music (what i was doing) or background music, but it's not my fave to just listen to outright.

I did not dislike it as much as their debut album. And I kind of like their second album, which will likely also be on this list since it's the best and this list likes to get carried away with certain artists and declare all their albums brilliant. If you like this album, check out Hum's return (Inlet in 2020) after a couple decades of nothing. Like that one, this album brings back shoegaze with a lot of droning/humming, fuzzy sounds but avoids the screechy sounds that really made 80's and 90's shoegaze irritating. And that makes for passable, almost entrancing background music. Best songs were she found now, new you, and nothing is; maybe only tomorrow too.

Surprisingly caught me off guard - enjoyed it more it went on- melodic, trance-like music. Decent as background Music or with noise cancelling headphones

inte MBV's bästa

I haven't listened to MBV before, and I assumed they were a completely different kind of music. This album is a hazy, fuzzy compilation of songs that succeed in creating a specific feel, but there are some drawbacks. The first 2/3rds of the album all sound the same, to the point where they basically sound like the same song. By the time any variety at all appeared on the album, I was already checking the track list to see how much longer I had to listen to this album. It's a bit exhausting, and the final few songs are unique but nothing stands out altogether.

I have Loveless on vinyl, and it will be getting a 5 when it comes up. I don't feel the same way about this one, but perhaps because I've come to it lately?

This is the second MBV album in this project, and it seems to have been a long wait between albums. This one also features ethereal voices over "sounds." My complaint of the previous album was its repetetiveness. I was going to note that at least this one didn't feel that way...then we got to listen to "nothing is" which was nothing but. "who sees you" made me almost drive off the road, making me feel somewhat badly altered, sounding like when you played a 45 on a record player without the spindle adapter, so it got all wobbly (I used to try really hard to get that thing centered properly but it never worked). But those are the lowlights. I still didn't love much, but there was some variety and interest in it as a whole.

I felt like I had left this album in a hot car and was trying to play it… there is a decidedly warped feel to a lot of this album. I can’t say I loved this, but I can’t say that I hated it. And a few songs (like ‘new you’) I quite liked.

Kind of a difficult one to enjoy. It is interesting. It is music that really kind of either puts you in a trance or bores you to tears. 3/5

Un gran álbum de los exponentes más importantes del microgénero “Shoegaze”. Sin embargo, el retorno de una de las bandas más interesantes de los ‘90s no logra concretar las expectativas, quedándose chico al lado de su obra maestra “Noveles”. Aún así, es una buena actualización del género, mezclándolo con las tendencias electrónicas que surgieron a lo largo de los 2000.

There's better shoegaze out there. Much better. This is fine, but it's by no means great.

Þetta er lágværara en mig minnti. Voða dreamy. Ekki McDreamy.

My second favourite MBV album

Boring in a way that I kind of liked but man I'm never listening to this again.

didnt really catch me but on a rainy day this will definetly hit

Meh

3/5

Dissonant, moody, dark and dreamy. A frequently lovely sound, but a little goes a long way. Fave Songs: if i am, only tomorrow, she found now, wonder 2, new you

ambient, ethereal music buried under distorted guitars for most of the songs. it was an interesting listen, to be sure.

Not bad.

The music was excellent but it would have been nice to hear the lyrics.

Often too much distortion, would be nice to hear some alternation with crisp and clear parts. 'new you' is nice.

Interessant experiment om als band je plaat op te nemen net naast de startbaan van een vliegveld terwijl de Boeings voorbij komen razen.

Nothing to say about this. It just sort of exists.

I'm torn. Their first two albums were life changing for me but this one, whilst decent enough just isn't. Some decent swirling guitars and droney melodies but nothing close to the unbridled chaos of Loveless.

Can't be faulted for enthusiasm. Actually, I'd love to meet the person who thinks that I should like this. And then form him/her to explain why.

More of the same.

This might be a really great listen under certain circumstances but this was not working for me at work.

süpürge sesi who başım ağrıyo şarkıların ne zaman değiştiğini anlayamıyorum ilk 5 şarkı aynı gibi ama new you iyi gibi çok da kötü değildi arkada aç çalsın ama bilmiyorum baş ağrıtıyo

Shoe Gays two decades in the making. You forget you're listening to anything most of the runtime, but it sometimes gets a little wild.

Helt okej.

Not quite loveless

Really a 3.5. I enjoyed the sound of this but not enough to add anything to the regular rotation.

Spacey at times, and other times noisy. I though parts of this were good, and other parts were average.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what I don’t really have anything to say about this album mainly because there isn’t much to comment on. I think there’s a fine line between experimental and just some noise and I’m really struggling to decide which side this album fits in to. Firstly, I’ll say that this album seems to be split into 3 tracks of 3, not sure if that was intentional but it feels like it. The 3 tracks in the middle are actually quite nice in a way, almost giving off beach house sounds at points but with a bit more rock essence to them. The reason I like these certain tracks is that you can actually hear the vocals, unlike the rest of the album. The first track sounds shoegaze-esque with this constant dreary guitar groaning in the back which isn’t too bad. The following 2 tracks on the other hand gave me a headache just because of how intense they are. This goes for the last 3 tracks too as I’m not sure what’s really going on in them either. I’ll give the band props because to some extent all these tracks are unique in their own way yet fit to the style of the record well. However, I don’t enjoy this album at all, it was honestly too much to get through and I kept asking myself when was the next song was going to play. I appreciate the sound they’re going for but with a bit more variety in the tracks then I would probably enjoy it, I just find it hard when there’s 5, 6 minute long tracks that are filled with loud dreary guitar, it just doesn’t get me excited for the next track. I give this an uhhhhhh so much noise/5

decent but not really memorable

Not as great as I wanted it to be

This album feels like huge waves of guitar slowly engulfing me. There's a certain beauty in this genre, and while I'm starting to get into it and appreciate it more, I'm still not blown away by it. I imagine this album being huge for fans alike back when it came out. So, all in all, not great, not terrible, but it's a nice record to listen and further dive into shoegaze, the sounds and atmosphere are truly something else though. Key tracks: She Found Now, Only Tomorrow, New You 5 out of 10

Not what I expected and a pleasant surprise. It might be higher on a second listen in all honesty.

good background music

It was better than I thought it would be

Better than the other one in the list

Very chill album, like their older stuff more

Grumbling anxiety fuzz, kinda cool, kinda backgroundy, kinda terrible in places. It feels unstructured and loose. Makes you lose track of time in a overstimulating kinda way, like getting lost in Selfridge's or Cyberdog in Camden, or both simultaneously.

Good album but I wasn’t in the mood for it today.

A boring shoegazing album a sure thing to cure insomnia.

я видимо их не слушала, но представляла по-другому. в принципе не запомнились, но и не взбесили)

Good

I enjoyed it but mostly forgettable except the 2nd track.

Atmospheric and experimental, this album is less intimidating than the band name would suggest. m b v does an excellent job of blending art rock and darker tones of an EMO and Goth genre.

I can hear the influence this had on other things I listen to. I hear some Soccer Mommy, Japanese Breakfast, Melody’s Echo Chamber, etc. it’s not something I’d seek out, but it would be good background music. I like In another way best.

great reading music

Much better than the other albums by mbv that I've listened to, quite a chill experience

Didn't know what to expect, but I kind of expected more. Most songs are decent but they could probably sound better without so much distortion, especially in the first half of the album. It was good background music, though. Also, cool band name. Fave track(s): new you, in another way, nothing is

Liked the vocals, didn't like the instrumentals that much.

So... That's the entire MBV discography, huh? That was quick. After 22 years of album silence from My Bloody Valentine they returned with a self-titled album that somewhat honored the legendary Loveless and somewhat went in an entirely new direction. Shields is still masterful at creating beauty in noise and the first three tracks really blows me back. The following "Is This and Yes" and "If I Am" then suddenly stops the freight train of sound that was set in motion by the opening songs. And although the rest of the album is in no way bad or boring, I don't feel like we're moving at full speed again until the closing "Wonder 2".

Rating: 6/10

It's not loveless and that burdens it for me. Still some really great songs on it.

Ha, mbv two days in a row! Y'all must really want me depressed. I thought this record was decent, but it felt like they got lost in their own experimentation this time. The album was much longer and meandered in certain pockets a little too much. Some of the experimentation was really gorgeous though, which really makes up for some of the pacing issues. Probably my least favorite mbv record but still highly enjoyable.

Un peu monocorde pour mes goûts, par contre je reconnais la qualité des pièces. Je suis contente d'avoir essayé ce groupe et je compte me familiariser davantage pour l'apprécier encore plus.

was excited to hear this, unfortunately it's nothing special. Sounds unfinished in parts, as the mix goes in and out. Shame, I really try to like MBV as Kevin Shields is such a good dude, but they always disappoint me somewhat

“Shoegaze”, eh? The second half starts doing some interesting stuff, but the first few tracks don’t have enough stuff going on with the synth loops to hold my attention

Is this what they call shoegaze music? Because I did find myself gazing down at my shoes. I noticed that my laces were slightly uneven and fraying a bit at the ends. Also, the tops of my shoes were starting to look a bit faded and scuffed up in a couple of places. Still comfortable and taking me where I want to go though. As far as the music goes, it's okay. I don't mind it, but I don't really love it either. It all sort of washes over you and sounds the same in the end. Strangely, I was listening to the album while I was driving through a thick fog to Wendy's for a breakfast sandwich, and that seemed fitting for the music. 3 stars.

I've liked previous My Bloody Valentine albums but I found this a bit boring.

very low-key techno beats some garage guitar mixed in too

Quite nice actually, beautifully trippy.

Atmospheric in the first half, comes to life in the second half. Not sure it's essential though.

solid album, it made me feel really relaxed, almost trancelike. listening while in the shower was like a dream.

This album was a 3, I looked up loveless per some reviews and that album is a 4, did some research into the genre shoegaze (indie/alt rock/psychedelic rock blend) and this genre deserves a 5. If you like dream pop and also like the genres I listed above, do some digging it’s worth your time.

I think Loveless is amazing (hence the 5 I gave it) their early work is good too. Somehow this album just doesn't do that much for me. I didn't love it when it came out and I still don't. It's good music to mope to, but it's hardly a fun listen for me. I honestly don't think it needed to make this list. Overall not a bad album, but not anything I'd deem essential listening.

okay i guess

Moni kaveri tästäkin bändistä tykkää mutta ei oo kyl koskaan mua se kärpänen purassut. Jotenki vaan liian suhinaa ja debistä. Loppua kohden kyllä paranee jotenkin painostavamman kuuloiseksi. Hmmm... Mitähän tästä olis mieltä oikeestaan. Kyl mä tälle annan sellasen 2,5 pongoo joten kolmeen tää pyöristyy. Heikko kolmonen!

Oli kyllä yllätävän heikko. Toki muutama oikein makea biisi ja sinänsä fiilaan tunnelmaa. 2,5/5 ja annetaan nyt täpärä 3.

great, anachronistic, fuccking long and amazingly a record only 9 years old. If I was a MBV fan back then I would have been very happy with this.

Quite liked some of the wafty moments. Otherwise a bit noisy

MBV is a bit difficult for me to listen along to, but I'd ay I liked this. My fave tracks are "in another way," "only tomorrow," and "wonder 2".

Ça faisait longtemps que Robert nous avait pas glissé un album de Post-Erasmus-Indie. Je voudrais d'ailleurs rappeler que toute personne qui souhaiterait appeler Robert par le surnom rob aura affaire à moi puisque c'est moi rob, même si vous me connaissez davantage sous le nom de robfourmilière.

listened to before didn't love it

If I hadn’t been streaming this, during significant portions of it I would have assumed something was wrong with either the media or my equipment. Apparently this was considered some sort of guitar innovation. A lot of juxtaposition of mumbly incomprehensible lyrics and grating noise. Didn’t care for most it if that’s not obvious.

not exciting shoegaze

This album was lying underground for more than two decades. Unearthed. Then released. This intimidating wine blew my head into pieces then threw it in a hazy hyperspace. What a freaking punch. Shoegaze is something else.

decent

A bit disappointed that they really haven't changed much since the 90s. Would have been nice to see a greater evolution in their sound

I have found i just don't love shoegaze music. I appreciate the musicality of it, but it isn't for me.

I would say the kicker to this modern art picture show of clouds drifting is how deceptively they take you somewhere tangibly different to where they started, but I'm a clod, so I doubt how deceptive the movement was solely dint of the fact that I noticed it. Whatever. It made me feel something decidedly untangible. Which is the point. Delicious.

Loved both "Isn't Anything" and "Loveless" but this one really didn't click with me sadly. 5-6/10

Not as ground breaking as their 1991 album. Enjoyed in places.

Dreamy

Meh

Decent album. I liked the 3-part concept of the album, which gave it enough variety to keep it interesting. It’s hard to explain what I enjoyed about it since it’s so simple, but somehow it ends up being good. 6/10

Pas trop vertain de quoi en penser. J'ai aime qhan meme 3.25

3.5

I enjoy MBV but I'm not sure there was a single song that I would say was exceptional on this album.

I wasn't sure at the start, but it got really good in the second half. Sadly, I can't say that I don't like My Bloody Valentine anymore, thanks to you...

It’s shoegazey. But of course it is. It’s also a return to form. One that I didn’t think I’d be into. What I got was something that explores the sonic in such a way that I’d hadn’t though before.

Weirder than I was expecting. But didn't really catch me.

There wasn't anything i didn't like, though wonder 2 was a bit strange. For me they miss the mark of actually being interesting... lacking a bit of melody/tone or not varying the intensity. Who sees you is probably the closests, where the normal droning gives way to perks of intensity and then fades away. Nothing in has intensity and a vibe but nothing interesting happens. Overall, a challenging and interesting listen.

I rated "Loveless" a 3 a couple of months back, so while seeing the next My Bloody Valentine album appear didn't quite make me throw my headphones out of the window, I wasn't especially excited to hear it. Much like Aardman's upcoming "Chicken Run 2: Dawn of the Nugget" (get hyped) "m b v" is a sequel 22 years in the making. Shoegaze's answer to "Smile", it sat in stilted development for many years, with a notorious perfectionist at the helm, anticipation building with every passing year. Now he knew that that all the time he spent on "Loveless" paid off, what the hell would Kevin Shields do next? The very act of its release must have been a landmark moment: Shields' affirmation that it was perfect, and anybody who didn't get it just wasn't ready. It was lapped up by a succession of nostalgic critics who most likely grew up with the original. So it seems the album's success is a product of its mythology. The songs themselves? There's a lot to like, but it is very hit and miss. Three tracks in, as I was pounded by onslaught after onslaught of walls of guitar, whirling tremolo and indecipherable vocals, I was convinced I was sitting through "Loveless" lite. As the album unfolded, I was struck by its greater penchant for variety, its tendency to explore outside of the band's long established sound. Sometimes it works: "is this and yes" is a lush, organ ballad that drifts by delicately and graciously. There are no guitars, and just a funereal tom beat: it's all dream and all pop, sitting right at home alongside new blood like Beach House. ​"new you" is catchy and accessible, with bouncy fuzz bass, light tremolo effects, and even some wordless "doo doo" vocals. I hate to throw genre names around, but is this My Bloody Valentine leaning into chillwave? Elsewhere, the experimentation doesn't land with me. "nothing is" is just horrendous, a three minute looped drum-fill and one-note riff that made me feel like I'd been eaten by a broken printer. By the end of the album, "wonder 2", the cacophonous buzzing and droning has taken the form of a jet plane engine: together with the frenzied drum and bass influenced beat, it gives the impression that rather than coming in to land, My Bloody Valentine are taking off. They weren't resting on their laurels with this album, and that's surely worth commending. On the whole though, "m b v" is no better than Loveless- perhaps more interesting highs, but also much more challenging lows. By far and away, the middle three songs are my favourite stretch of the album and really hint at another side of the band: mellow, subdued, content. Altogether, the set leaves us wondering where My Bloody Valentine could go next and which direction they might push. We probably only have until 2035 to wait.

Probably my favorite of theirs

Man, this sure ain't Loveless.

I just do not get the appeal of these guys.

I love My Bloody Valentine. "Loveless" is in my Top 5 albums. I have nearly everything they ever released. Except this. I was excited when m b v was announced. Then when I heard it, I realized that all the charm was gone. The sounds were all there, but it was more abrasive, and just harder to listen to than anything they have ever released before. I keep trying to convince myself that I actually enjoyed this, but in reality... m b v was a slog I did not enjoy.

Really the most interesting thing about this album is how weird silence sounds after a track ends. Definitely more of a 'vibe' or 'experience,' but as an album I would never put it on again.

Loveless had its moments, but m b v feels formulaic. Old band reforms, and drops a sterile reenactment of past glories. We've seen it happen with every big band past their prime: Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Judas Priest etc. What differentiates My Bloody Valentine from the other big bands is that between Loveless and this, they weren't ever truly forgotten. Late 90s and early 00s alternative rock was inspired by indie a la MBV. Plus, appearing every now and then to say you're working on an album gives the average fan the sensation of a multi-year edge session. And finally, the album drops, and the load has been released. And then you realize the mess, the sterile sound of the album, and the numbing sensation of 45 minutes of buzz and sultry female vocals that make you ask yourself: where's the catch? What's the point? There is no point. And much like gooning, the fan moves on end edges onwards, and to this day he still edges, waiting for the 4th sweet load release. But hey, Kevin said the album is 85% done, so it will be all over soon. Right??

no le entendí nada...

Sounds muffled and mushed at times. One song reminds me a bit of 90’s U2 — not my favorite. Perhaps being a little too hard on this album since I feel I should like it more but alas.

Lacked substance. Had potential, but didn’t build to anything. Noise, ambient, Somber, but not anything… Rating: 4/10 Favorite Song: only tomorrow

2.5

2.5

Opening numbers, “she found now” and “only tomorrow” are too fuzzy for me. They are isort of pretty, but I’m not sure why there is singing. I heard no discernible words. The fuzzy sound and distortion was a bit much after song 3. Possibly critical acclaim is that it doesn’t sound like other bands’ music? “New you” picked it up a bit, but not enough for me. “Nothing is” worked for me—the propulsive beat. The standout for me.

Looking at the shoe gaze genre I should like this album, but its just kind of noise to me then any real ear catching interest. I'm sure for those who love this band it's amazing, to me it was a chore to get through.

Not all noise is good noise.

This isnt what I expected at all. I thought MBV was more emo/rock but I was super wrong. Not sure what this is, psychedlic, athmospheric rock? Anyway it's definitely non conventional for better and worse. I find general enjoyment strongly dampened by repetitiveness and ear grating decision. Though I don't think I'll come back to this, it has left an impression and I'm glad to know what MBV is actually about.

Not my cup of tea

Shoe gaze? You’re making it up, right? There are some good melodies buried in here, but they’re smothered under so much distortion that most of the time it just sounds like my turntable and amp are on the blink. 1½

I always assumed this was just another emo band that sounded like an emo band? I didn't expect a noise pop band. I didn't like it either.

4 - for as much noise as they make it’s pretty lethargic. Just below ok.

Yeah, this definitely had its moment! Repetitive and, ultimately, boring... but I can understand the enthusiasm of its fans, so I'll give it a 2 out of 5.

I really felt like this kind of went nowhere. It took me a while to realize that I hadn't really noticed the changes between songs. It just sounded like they were running a jam session of random noises and humming/light singing.

telita

Moody und teilweise bisschen grungy aber eher langweilig

i don't really like them unfortunately, just a little too bummer-y

This was a rough album for this listener. I felt like I went from dream mode to straight acid trip. Was this intended to be a "trip out" album? Found it difficult to know when songs started and ended. I only listened twice, but really, that's all I could take. It wasn't blood from my ears, but I didn't really enjoy either. Last 2 songs kinda pushed me from "not terrible" to just end this please. Not my thing and won't revisit.

no thx

do not care

Well, it's music.

It seemed that every song on this album was an introduction, but it never went anywhere. Hard pass

I'm struggling here. The contrast of the breathy vocals and distorted guitars is interesting sometimes, annoying other times. "Is This And Yes" caught my ear. I certainly don't mind distortion, but this feels like it's trying a little too hard for me to really get in there and appreciate it fully.

As I listen to this album, two things stand out: -1st, they need to turn the singer’s mic up -2nd, they need to turn the distortion down For the record, I think the reason Shoegaze never really took off as a genre is because distortion and ethereal are oil and water. This is also the reason this album kind of sucks. Not the worst thing I’ve ever heard, but certainly the worst album I’ve had all week. Nothing here to latch onto

I expected to like this more. I read the reviews and even the negative ones were describing things I like in music, so I went in with an open mind, but I found the whole thing rather irritating, really.

It is cool that this was released 22 years after their prior full-length original album, due to breaking up and reuniting. Yet, I didn't need to hear it before I died.

mostly pleasant and unremarkable except sometimes the soft-spoken vocals become like nails on a chalkboard. people who care a lot about having Good Taste™ or presenting themselves as such hype the fuck out of this band and it feels like a bit of an emperor's new clothes situation to me. maybe their earlier work is better but i'm not that eager to check it out.

Wow--this may be 22 years after their previous album, which was itself nearly a half-decade after their debut album, but the opening tracks sound an awful like they--or really Kevin Shields--just hopped into a time machine to steal back their sounds from the later 80s and early 90s. Admittedly, they started recording large parts of this album in 1996, and then again in 2006, and then again in 2011-2012 but all the same, talk about arrested development.... I *did* appreciate it that the album's sound begins to morph ever so slightly with the blissfully guitar-free "is this and yes" onwards, and "nothing is" and "wonder 2" wrap things up with a mighty thunder of drum machines and sheer sound (even if it's all still very retro). If nothing else, this album is convincing proof that I'm just not a fan of this band. And pretty interesting to note that Shields was 28 when "Loveless" was released, and he turned 50 when this album came out. That's a lot of water under the bridge. And pooh sticks.

This is the second My Bloody Valentine album that I have gotten from the "1001 albums" book. I still have not gotten Loveless, which is MBV's most famous and well-regarded album. I listened to mbv when it originally came out and my opinion hasn't changed too much. It's a fine comeback album but considering I just have not gotten into My Bloody Valentine too much, it doesn't necessarily hit hard for me. I find the vocals difficult to hear and shoegaze isn't probably my favorite genre of music as it is. It seems like mbv received all of the accolades it did because everyone was so happy that My Blood Valentine was back more than it was about the quality of the new album. I do not believe this is an album I should listen to before I die. My favorite songs: Only Tomorrow Who Sees You New You In Another Way

I tried, listened twice but just can't get on board.

Didn't like, too much shoegaze for my taste

Ikke lett å følge opp Loveless, men det er lov å prøve. Dette er både litt fanservice og litt videreutvikling, men egentlig ikke så interessant. Ser at plata har blitt tatt ut av 1001-boka, og det er nok like greit.

komische musik. und wieso muss m b v mit drei schlechten alben in dieser liste sein?!

Songs go nowhere for a seemingly long time

No standouts

almost features in a white noise for focus playlist I like shoegaze / post-rock kind of distortions in general, and I know m b v, never knew this album, and not sure if 3 of their albums deserve to be here. So I'll hold off from a higher rating for the album I like more.

Disappointing

I think my main issue with My Bloody Valentine is that it sounds like a wall of discordant noise to me. Talking about this band with my eldest child has really helped me to understand them better (them my child AND them the band - confusing I know) - to my child's ears all these sounds are distinct and the way their brain processes it is so different from mine. While its still not a pleasant listening experience for me, I had a lot more appreciation of this album than the last few by MBV, and more of an appreciation for my kiddo too.

It’s alright, but why are the vocals so low? I’ll stick with Bullet For My Valentine instead. 2.5⭐️

i loved 'in another way' and 'nothing is', where they really ratchet it up....but not sure if it's because i was kinda bored with the first six tracks....then the last song kinda loses me again 2.5 stars...rounding down since i was mainly bored with it

Some okay musical pieces on the album, but it really drags on after a while. This is one that I guess I just don't get. 2/5 Won't listen again

In 2013, the return of mbv caused a small stir. No one had really missed them, but the old heads would no doubt enjoy revisiting their former glories and the new generation would get a chance to revel in loveless. A returning great, their new album was treated like all classic artists reformed efforts are: as an interesting subplot to their tour and merch release. I saw them at the Hammersmith Apollo that year and remember telling my parents I'd been having a shoegaze phase and receiving an amused, slightly scoffing response. My habit of dredging up forgotten indie subsects and overblowing their musical significance was well documented. Jump forward to 2026 and shoegaze is a global phenomenon, significantly more popular now than it it's Bristolian heyday: and mbv are still the spearhead. This album has come to mean a lot more than one last hurrah. That new generation of fans took it as their own, cherished it and shared it excessively on first Tumblr and now TikTok. Which I guess makes me one the old heads.

As I listened I became distracted by technical/structural question: are there any other elements the band could have incorporated to make this album more tiresome?

Forgettable album, almost forgot it was playing just melded into the background.

this was great work noise. not quite my normal vibe, but i can deal with "adult contemporary deftones"

Very dreamy, in that I was dreaming of a more interesting album

Just meh.

MBV is de grote grondlegger van de shoegaze. En met m b v ook de eerste die in de 21ste eeuw weer voor een revival zorgden. Al kwam die eigenlijk pas veel later. En waar de mede-shoegazers van Slowdive met Slowdive een hele toegankelijke plaat maken in 2017 is m b v echt een hele taaie. Ik kan me de recensies op deze plaat goed voorstellen. Het is vooral hele veel noise en de nummers breken nergens mooi open en hebben 0 catchiness. Ik heb de plaat 3x aangezet en steeds was dit een vrij aangemakkelijke aanwezigheid en ging die weer uit (bijv. de valse tonen in who sees you). Ik heb dus echt wel moeite om het mooie in m b v te horen en geef ze een 6 voor de moeite - en vanwege de liefde voor het genre. 6/10 Highlights only tomorrow

4/10

I adore Loveless as a record, so I had high hopes for this, but I just couldn’t get into it, felt very drawn out and at times self-indulgent. Nothing I’d be drawn back to.

A bit more accessible to my delicate ears than the other stuff I’ve listened to by this lot. It was ok, but much of it just seemed to be happening around me rather than grabbing my attention.

Lot of noise trying to be punk/edgy. The band's name lends itself to the emo, cringey stereotypes and the music follows suit

Niet echt voor mij

Music for sad teenagers. 2/5

Music to clean the dungeon to…

Tää oli todellakin noise-poppia. Ei jäänyt muuta mieleen kuin ärsyttävät kitarajuoksutukset, tai mitä se nyt onkaan. En tykännyt liian alas miksatusta laulustakaan.

I dont get it

I always get these guys mixed up with Bullet For My Valentine. Anyway, this is some fuzzy dream rock stuff, it's fine but every track sounds the same (he says confidently, nearing the end of the second track). The tracks just kind of meander around and repeat themselves, they seem short on ideas. Turns out I had already listened to Isn't Anything from My Bloody Valentine before, which I called "Just the biggest load of nothing I can remember hearing. Fuzzy recordings of what sounds like a garage band, inaudible lyrics, no tunes or sometimes even rhythms to speak of. There's nothing to get a grip on, it's like trying to grab fog. At times maybe it's noise rock, but it mostly sounds like literally nothing is happening, but loudly - typical shoegaze." This is more of the same, even to the extent that the final couple of tracks were the most interesting, with actual beats. Did we need to include both albums?

All the droniest parts of The Deftones with none of the excitement. Even when the tempo picks up it's repetitive enough that it kills the energy. Not my jam.

Is this the same song for 55 minutes, or just 9 songs that sound the same? You decide. 2/5

A t m o s p h e r i c as fuck.

I really am not a fan of this genre.

I think I understand a little better why they call this style, “shoegaze.” Because I feel like I need to go stare at my feet for a while and figure out what I just listened to.

What a plummet, starting off well enough, but quickly moving to background music, with a long ending in the annoying range. Influences of the most experimental music from the Beatle and Beach Boys did nothing to make this worth listening to again.

I don’t know why music critics seem convinced they know better than the rest of us and keep shoveling multiple noise rock albums onto these lists, knowing we’re likely to tolerate them at best and hate them at worst. This album is a prime example of why critics don’t always know best. My Bloody Valentine’s m b v is a collection of crunchy guitars layered with just enough distortion to obscure everything else, unsettling ethereal vocals that are difficult to decipher, and percussion that feels like an afterthought buried somewhere in the background. Add in a tempo so damn slow it’s as if the entire record was filtered through maple syrup, and you’ve got the complete package. Realizing I still have one more album from this group to get through before I’m done may be the understatement of the year.

Unnecessary noise in parts, but not the worst thing this has generated for me so far

It noise and a lot of distortion. I get that is what the genre is, but I don't want to listen to it. The noise approached something resembling a song in some of the tracks, so it doesn't get the lowest score.

muchos sonidos pero pocas ideas esperaba que este me encantase, pero no ha sido el caso, una pena te amo sazed

Nah not for me, nothing I want to hear on here!

Rubbish

Geluid

This was a strange album. It's like a souped-up version of the ambient sound music they play at yoga sessions. So inoffensive enough to listen to, but then there would be the occasional more 'wake up and listen' intervention, which was often unwelcome rather than stimulating. Not very good.

I found this to be a pretty tedious listen. It felt like there was an unnecessary excess of effects; perhaps there to mask the fact that the actual songwriting just wasn’t very compelling. The vocal delivery was also rather dull throughout. There were moments where the atmosphere worked well, but for the most part, it came across as a messy exploration of distortion, effects, and melancholy that dragged on far too long. Overall, a few redeeming moments, but not enough to make me say this was good, or even mediocre.

I didn't get this at all.

Uh

Whiney and noisy, shoegaze but lacks substance. Very very meh

2.5

Niet mijn ding

Mostly-noisy ethereal shoegaze.

Don’t understand why these types of albums are on this list. It is background music at best.

Number: 119 Date: 05/02/2026 Artist: My Bloody Valentine Album: mbv Year: 2013 Genre: Shoegaze Familiarity: Well-versed Rating: 2 Before: ======= I love My Bloody Valentine. in fact, "Loveless", released 22 years earlier is one of my all time favorite albums and is a contender for my top 10 essential albums, definately in my top 50. That being said, I was a bit disappointed the first time I listened to "mbv". I only skimmed through it to be honest, so this will be my first full listen. During: ======= So I had company over and listened to the whole album whilst talking with them and did not hear much that grabbed my attention but will skim though it again and rate each song. After : ======= I wended up giving all the songs a 3, though there were a couple that were close to 4 and a couple close to 2. Seeing how's this album isn't that much different than "Loveless", I'm going to have to give it a low mark for suitability. 3 my personal rating 1 suitability for this list 2 impact ----------------------------------------------- 2 composite rating

1. found - 2 2. tomorrouu - 2 3. uuho - 2 4. Yes - 2 5. Am - 1 6. New - 2 7. Another - 2 8. nothing - 1 9. Wonder - 1

In 1999, Star Wars Episode 1 was released onto a public that were ravenous for any new Star Wars product. The consensus at the time was that the movie was...let's say "flawed" but that it was definitely worth the wait to have a new Star Wars movie. And hey, the kinks would obviously be worked out in the subsequent movies, right? Cut to a few years later when everyone basically feels duped by the new Star Wars and with a clearer head can see The Phantom Menace for the boondoggle that it always was. So why are we still letting people get away with calling this anything other than a waste of time?

Boring. I found this album boring and like watching paint dry.

Not my jam, but also was pretty distracted while listening to it.

I’ve tried to get into MBV before. I guess there is a reason I never could. Trying way too hard to be cool. I said it. 1.8

I don’t know. Some interesting moments. Certainly a vibe. But on the whole, boring. 4/10 Acceptable

Мало того, что заснул, так ещё и проснулся, а уши в крови

2 out of 5. This album is a bit like a run-on sentence in how monotonous it can be.

Not good

Nah not the one at all

The first two tracks sounded like they were on a radio station that wasn’t exactly tuned in. This was not a great listen.

s m h …there’s a time and place for shoe gazing in a sea of noise, but I stare at my shoes wondering why this was included. The production is murky, and the vocals being mixed purposefully low and indecipherable is just annoying.

I didn’t really like this. Sounded like a wall of noise or being played under water. Nothing memorable and very meh. 1.75

Highlights: new you, wonder 2

Fine to listen to, but not that good like as far as being good. I’m surprised this band was so popular but it’s cool people like stuff like this.

It started as a nice soundtrack to listen while crocheting on the bus; finished like a glitch in the matrix.

This album, while quite edgy and powerful from a sonic perspective, gave me a nasty headache. For me way to much sustained distortion without real melody and no groove.

Very slow but did not dig it

I think I would have liked it better if I wasn't dealing with a headache & sinus infection today.

I came out to bat for Loveless and, should Isn't Anything come up, as I suspect it will, I will take a smaller bat and bunt it into the infield of acceptability. However, this album adds nothing in particular to the MBV catalogue nor to this list. 2 This was not as bad as it ought to have been considering that it largely struck me as the work of a 50 year old man attempting to reproduce that stylish pose everyone thinks he was cool for doing in his 20s - setting the guitar just so, mumbling just so, spurning capital letters. I thought as I listened that m b v might have a pleasing utility as a different sort of stick with which to give loveless another few whacks. This was very cynical of me. Luckily my listening to this album coincided with my reading a Barbara Pym novel which elicited great sympathy for the notion of people in their 50s living in the shadow of their lives in their 20s. We must all do what we can to try to be happy. For myself this will include not listening to much more my bloody valentine going forward. Apart from when I have to. 2/5

a bit boring :( everything sounds the same

I'm 3 songs into this thing so far and I am struggling. The first song was entirely forgettable, so much so that I didn't realize the album started until track 2 which was also forgettable since I don't remember it. Track 3 just ended, but wasn't any good. The remaining 6 tracks didn't get any better. You can't give it a 1 because it's not actively bad in a way that makes you want to shut it off immediately, but you can't give it higher than a 2 because it stinks. No way this is one of the 1001 best albums ever made, or even one of the ones you need to hear at any point in your life. I bet the reviews section is going to be littered with people falling all over themselves to love this thing. Post review read: I was wrong, a lot of people actually seem to agree with me on this one. Shocking

2/5

Kevin Shields in 2013: 'Hey guys, i've just finished the new My Bloody Valentine album. I know it's been a while but I hope it's worth the wait!' That's great Kevin. Unfortunately it's not 1991 anymore and whatever hallucinogens people were on that made them think Loveless was good have worn off now.

Meh

Vraiment pas mon style. Peut-être une ou deux musiques sympa mais ça s’arrête là.

Nog steeds geen fan

Not for me. I don’t get it. It’s just noise

15/03/2026 Wow, My Bloody Valentine are bloody boring. A solid no from me. Spotify listeners: 791k

Sounds like noise.

It’s not for me, but in a way that almost is.

Ох щось мені прям зовсім не зайшло. Та і загалом я розлюбив шугейз, якщо чесно.

Liked it but it was not my type ig. Liked the songs but I felt like distortion was too much. Fact that I didn't like the type got score really low. So 2/5

It’s noise… but it’s… good… noise? I think I have a headache.

The sound on most songs were scratchy and difficult to listen to

begon uiterst vervelend.. op het einde werd het iets beter, maar tegen dan was mijn aandacht getrokken door een streep verf die aan het drogen was...

It’s fine

Wasn't really into MBV or emo music when it came out and it seems my tastes have not changed. More ambient/shoegaze than I'd prefer

ok. 2.5

Jez and Super Hans would reject this for Danny Dyer’s Chocolate Homunculus as being too shit.

Reminds me of Ross Geller playing on his synthesizer.

There is a scene in Family Guy where Meg is tortured by being forced to watch the other 178 hours of Monty Python sketches that aren’t funny or memorable and she says “I’m a girl! I don’t even like the good Monty Python sketches!” https://youtu.be/GPzO-kNvEYw?si=mwkDX6t1Zhye535l That is how I feel about mbv. I’m a fan of catchy music that sounds good and is fun to listen to! I don’t even like good My Bloody Valentine!

Not a favourite

The only good thing about this album is that it's under 50 minutes long. When would you listen to an album like this?

My Bloody Valentine are the best shoegaze band, but that's like being the smartest student in the mentally handicapped class. Good for them. New You was surprisingly approachable as well. 2 Stars.

Vähän olin yllättynyt, että MBV:llä olikin muitakin levyjä Lovelessin lisäksi. Loveless on lähellä viittä tähteä, tämä ei. Kyllä tästä bändin tunnistaa, mutta jotenkin ei kanna. 2/5, koska odotukset oli suuret. En kuunnellut loppuun.

Not something I would listen to again but it didn’t offend me

was not a fan of is this and yes nor was I a fan of nothing is. not an album for me.

Ok I’d like to start with the positives, the biggest being the guitar playing is sick and super haunting. The other positives is that this album is super smooth and buttery, I normally couldn’t tell when a song started and ended cause it all flowed really well. And I’d also like to add that the music is super chill and relaxing. Those things being said this album felt empty to me. Like it had the charm and the atmosphere of a great indie rock album but they forgot to actually write music and lyrics. I’m obviously being dramatic but it did genuinely feel empty and hollow of an album. I’m hoping to get more form this artist in the future cause instead of this album being not for me and putting me off, it did the opposite and made me hungry for more and hopefully something more substantial.

2.5 - Meh

I barely heard some interesting melodies because of the excessively processed instrumentation.

A couple of ok-ish tracks. But then the guy insists on singing…..

Meh. Some tracks are alright. But mostly I just wanted it to end.

I don't think I'm cool enough for this one unfortunately.

Shoegaze is apparently my least favorite genre. I can understand why people like this but it’s not for me. And it drove me crazy that it sounded like I was listening to a band playing in a club from outside on the sidewalk.

Some ok stuff, but largely not that interesting

Only Tomorrow

I'll give it 1.5 because I gave worse albums 1.5, this is horrible. Incredibly boring, horribly produced. I finished it over three days, little by little. I don't understand what it's doing on this list. 1.5/5

Thought I would like this a bit more...

Best Track - "Only Tomorrow"

Oh sorry, I dozed off there for a few minutes. Those droney guitars can be so soothing...

2/5 Fav: new you

??? droney. c

This was my first exposure to My Bloody Valentine. After I was underwhelmed by the first listen, I followed the advice of AI to turn off volume normalization in my Spotify settings and to listen to the album in thirds. Distorted, fuzzy guitars droned over softly sung, mostly indecipherable lyrics in the first three songs. I imagined Smashing Pumpkins, but I can't picture Billy Corgan wailing over these. The next set of three introduced an organ, stronger drums and random electronic sounds, but the vocals, though more pronounced, remained dreamlike, ethereal and equally unclear. The final three start off kicking, with strong and menacing guitar and synth and powerful, hypnotic percussion on "in another way"—I thought of Nine Inch Nails at one point, but the spiraling synth, almost like bagpipes, washed that away. The power and hypnosis kicked up a notch for "nothing is," and you could feel the intensity grow like an oncoming locomotive as the instrumental barreled toward the end. The final track, "wonder 2," changed the mode of transportation from train to jet, a concert growing in intensity and loudness (except the voices) on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Glad I gave it a second, more informed listen, but it further confirmed that this is not my thing. Respect the effort, though.

Virke bare veldig dårlig produsert. Ingen bangers

Muddy and droning. I don't like it very much.

Okay.

Meh

Took me a minute to get into the vibe of this. Once I got there it was okay. I much prefer Loveless though.

Couldn't remember if I really hated the last MBV album or surprisingly liked it. Oh there were two albums already and I hated them both. Noise noise noise. Not really sure what the allure is here. There's some atmospheric allure to a song or two. Reading my last reviews it definitely isn't as bad as the other two.

Playing catch up so listening to all 3 MBV albums together. I'm partial to a bit of shoe gaze/ noise distortion and feedback. Gold standard for me is J&MC as they deliver the above along with great tunes and vocals that capture the emotion of the songs. Whilst MBV have some good tunes they are vocally pretty weak - with the vocals washed out and placed low in the mix and as a result I struggle to form connection with the songs. MBV is the worst offender and is by far the weakest of the 3 albums with no notable tracks so scores a 2. Isn't Anything the debut is bit more punkier/rougher and I think would have been fun to see live - scores a 3. Loveless is the best of the lot - with the most polished and accessible songs and strongest vocals.

To call Shields a one-trick pony doesn't cut it. The incessant use of the whammy bar and massive reverb is one heck of a sound, but played repeatedly for 20 years it loses its edge. Secondly, being nearly 20 years in the making, they offer fayre like 'is this and yes' which could've been knocked up in ten minutes. That being noted, I can dig some of this, subject to the pull of the melody rather than the effects. 'only tomorrow' develops into a hypnotic circular track, which they have a skill for. 'who sees you' has the same captivating swirl. 'she found now' may be the most enticing track with some delicate vocals that match the atmospherics. 'Loveless' remains their best and only really worthwhile listen.

Warm, hazy shoegaze swells built from endlessly blooming guitars, submerged bass, soft electronic pulses, and murmured, vapor-thin vocals move this shoegaze album like standing inside a pastel-colored jet engine—beautiful in its swirling, enveloping blur, but so thick and indistinct that the longer it roars, the harder it becomes to tell one shape from another.

4/10

what are they even saying...too alternative for me Nice musicals tho!!

12. shoegaze

yawn

Un album amb poca lletra, aixo m'ha avorrit un poc. La música guay.

I kinda like shoegazey stuff like this. So I mostly liked the record. It was interesting and felt like something out of a dream. Not really sure that I see it as a must-listen though. There's just nothing about it to make me say it's great. Overall: 2.25/5

The more I listened the worse it got

Bloody boring is what it is. I can appreciate that some would get lost in the noise and drone, the fuzz and layers. It didn’t capture me.

An aweful lot of noise, with nothing else that would really make this enjoyable to listen to.

I just can't get on with it.

As my good friend says: eh.

2.4

So much less coherent than the previous MBV on this list.

It's like listening to muzak with crappy headphones next to a jet engine.

I love long songs, but they need to have a purpose. These didn’t

What a remarkable achievement. This was the first time anyone had walked into a Guitar Center at noon on a Saturday and packaged the ambient noise as an album.

Absolutely didn't need to be on this list. Every album by these guys is on here. This was more of the same and not relevant anymore. Not groundbreaking, just more distorted guitar droning with whispery vocals

There's a limit to how much shoegaze I can handle

Another "critics favourite", you need a degree in noisology to fully appreciate this "gem".