Reviews (page 6 of 7)
Op zich kan ik dit soort muziek best hebben, maar het is wel een uitdaging. Ze doen hun best om zoveel mogelijk geluid te maken, zonder dat er iets van melodie in zit. En het klinkt alsof je expres door een deur heen moet luisteren, of dat een plaat de hele tijd overslaat en op repeat staat. Lastige kost. Wie weet als je je er aan over kan geven en verder niks om handen hebt, behalve misschien wat verdovende middelen, dat het geniaal is. Maar ik ben gewoon aan het werk en dan laat het zich toch lastig luisteren. Dan was zelfs Tom Waits die ik net draaide een stuk radiovriendelijker. Meer dan 2 sterren kan ik er nu dan ook niet voor geven.
An interesting sound by My Bloody Valentine, the first of their stuff I believe I have heard of theirs. However after 22 years of not releasing an album, perhaps they should have left it where their band belongs - back in the early 90s. Most of the album just sounded like fuzzy noise, with some semblance of lyrics underneath. Best: she found now Worst: in another way
I just listened to an hour of noise. Was it unpleasant noise? Not always, but it's hard to think of it as music when you can hardly understand the vocalist and the sounds all blend together. I haven't listened to 'loveless' yet, but this gets a hard no from me. 1.5 stars, rounding up to 2 'cause it wasn't as annoying as the Tom Waits record I'd listened to yesterday.
I thought i'd like it, but i found the first half too droney to listen to. Best track 'If I am' 2
I can see this would appeal to some people, but it's not to my liking
Eh, idk. Kinda boring to me, and there were times where there was a weird reverb thing going on that bothered my ears. Not atrocious but just not for me.
Huh. I found it to be a bit of a snooze. Nothing really hooked me. Not very dynamic.
Noisy, distorted, echoey, very ok weird alt-rock. Not my jam.
Self indulgent noodly emo prog-rock? An interesting listen, but not a keeper
m b v my bloody valentine 2013 1. she found now: 5/10 2. only tomorrow: 5.5/10 3. who sees you: 5/10 4. is this and yes: 2/10 5. if i am: 3.5/10 6. new you: 4/10 7. in another way: 4/10 8. nothing is: 1/10 9. wonder 2: 4/10 overall rating: 3.7/10
I didn't hate it, but I also didn't like it. Overall just makes me feel like they're so tired and I think they should've taken a nap instead of recording an album
It started out good and I enjoyed the first couple of songs. But as time went on it really started to sound exactly the same.
Didn’t love the last album by them but went into this one with a totally open mind, and again, I just don’t get it. It’s like there’s a fuzz over everything and it kind of ruins the listening experience for me. I want to like them, but ugh.
On the first track, I had to play something else on my speaker to make sure the static sound wasn't because the speaker was broken before switching back. Later songs are not quite as noisy, but still a bit too much for my taste. There is something about ethereal music, but it's not really my thing - I like my music to have a bit more direction. Either it annoys me or I forget I'm listening to it - both mean a 2.
I'm not a fan of shoegaze, and this only helped confirm that opinion. I honestly thought the stream had glitched at a couple points. Distortion can be artfully done, but its use here just felt antagonistic. Giving this 2* only because the latter half could be decent background music if you're feeling particularly melancholic.
meh
Not for me at all
Not really good music for my tastes
Meh, fuzzy noise. Not my cup of tea. It was a bit headache inducing.
i mean i guess
It was interesting reading up on the production of this album, as many will notice the two decade gap from MBV's previous studio album to this. Sounds like there were some recordings completed prior to the band's breakup, pretty much making "mbv" a mishmash of both old and new work. You can kinda hear that here, though. There's not really much of a flow across tracks. The only other MBV album I've listened to was their debut album earlier in this list and this just feels like more of the same: the obscured vocals, and atmospheric, distorted guitar sound that MBV is known for. This just reaffirms that I still don't care much for shoegaze. That leaves one more MBV album yet to appear for me on this list ("Loveless"), maybe that one will finally impress me, but I doubt it.
Gear: Hifiman Arya Artwork: passend - waberndes Nichts in Blau Mix: braucht ordentlich Saft, um nur einen Hauch von Impact zu haben Musik: live und auf 11 bestimmt ein erfüllendes Gänsehaut-Erlebnis - aber keine Platte, die ich nochmals hören (muss) Wertung: 🔷🔷/5
As background noise, okay. Not sure I’d call it music, though.
This was a much softer sound than I expected from a band called My Bloody Valentine. All these years I’ve heard their name but never their music, I assumed that they were some kind of hard rock/pseudo-metal band that played on the same bills as bands like Slipknot and Korn. But here we are, and the sound is much more airy and less aggressive than I ever would’ve imagined. All that said, this was mostly pretty boring. A lot of the songs sounded the same and I was surprised this wasn’t their debut. I’d forgive them more if it was. But this is three albums into their discography and this is clearly their sound. I don’t get the hype at all with these guys. There were some solid tracks (see below), but mostly I just didn’t care. Sorry guys. Two stars. Standout tracks: who sees you, new you, in another way
First time listening to My Bloody Valentine and I hope it's my last.
MBV is not who I thought they were... but still not for me.
This was very boring and not at all memorable. Rounding up to 2 because it didn’t grate on me.
This was too muddy and murky, even for my tastes. Second half better than the first.
I’m never coming around on mbv, I’m afraid.
Boring
This goes for a vibe more than anything, which is good because the rest doesn't do much. Instrumentals are bland, the distortion washes everything out, and the vocals barely show up. I know it's what they're going for and that's what keeps it from a 1, but this isn't great.
I hope no one actually waited 22 years for this. Even if you liked “Loveless”, it doesn’t add anything really interesting to the MBV formula. Shoegaze sucks.
This album got a lot of hate in the reviews, and I can see why. Shoegaze isn't pop music. But it's not as terrible as these reviewers would have you think. I enjoyed the layered sounds and droning vocals. I did have to check the time on some of the songs, to see if I needed to skip. Overall I didn't love this, but I didn't hate it.
To me this is pretty mediocre. I feel like their other earlier albums were much better. Maybe this is a more mature version of the band. I probably won't listen to this album again.
There's clearly some musicianship tucked into these recordings, but there's so much noise in the midrange that it's impossible to cut through it all. I don't get the appeal.
This is my second MBV album and I recall not caring for the first one. I maybe liked this a smidge better? I can understand why other people would like this but I don't. It's a bit too ethereal for me. Maybe more of a 2.5.
Some of this was painful to listen to. There were a couple of good tunes on here, but I'm definitely never gonna stay away from this album.
Did not enjoy this one at all.
Shoegaze, føles langt uden rigtig at være det, ikke ligefrem opmuntrende
Wasn't a fan personally. Too much distortion
Bunch a noise. Not going back to it.
Muito emo, muito longo, muito chato
Listened to it a few days ago and nothing is memorable about it
Somehow weird… too weird for me
It's vibe music that I'm not really here for. Maybe I missed something because I feel like they are pretty well regarded. I'll wait for their next album on the list. Will I listen to again: 5%
The dullest thing I’ve heard in a while, and I listened to this on the way to a conference about insurance policy wordings
Not for me
Meh. 2 stars.
It’s a shoegaze album. But a critically acclaimed shoegaze album. Make of that what you will.
Suurimmaksi osaksi ihan pelkkää melua ja junnaamista. Muutama ihan ok hetki, mutta ei kyllä iskenyt yhtään. Parhaat: if i am, new you
One or two I didn’t mind, but not really my thing. I’d probably like it more if I was on acid.
i can do low key, but perhaps not this key. Not sure what this was adding to music in 2013.
Boring. Didnt click like Loveless did
Not my kind of music. Some of it didn't even seem like music at all.
This was a tricky one. I know the bands name but don’t think I’ve ever actively listened. Those droning, dissonant bends made me queasy. I know that’s the point. It just didn’t hit for me. Maybe someday in the future.
Boring at times, exciting at times. The rhythm and percussion department absolutely shine bright on this album and the lead/vocal melodies are rather soothing and romantic. Chaotic blend of grunge & noise with almost falsetto vocals. Wild mix.
Sounds like it's underwater. Just not digging it.
Rock to hard rock lean to an otherwise alternative album.
None of these songs begin or end.
I can’t say I really like this album. A couple of songs were good and I could see potential. Then there was Nothing Is….which sounded like the needle was skipping back the whole song. I am not a fan.
Musically, not bad. Got bored to tears listening to it. Not one stand out track. A gruesome twosome stars
o o f 1 . 5
good background music
Aika tasapaksu
I don't get it? The album title is an amusing reference to the band, but the whole aura of the album was lackluster. It felt like Lana Del Rey but with punk and not at all interesting or inspiring. At least the album sounded cohesive?
I mean, this album just wasn't very moving for me? It was like lo-fi, somewhat ethereal, somewhat ambient, somewhat grungy noise rock. I liked it okay, and it was fine for background noise, but not really worthy of this project, in my opinion.
noise
Seems to go on and on!! So many effects and repetition.
Noisy. I was into it at the beginning but it just keeps going and doesn't change.
Maybe I wasn't in the mood for that but it just didn't work out for me
Not amazing, the end half of the album just sounds like a mess to me. Sludgy krautrock isn't my bag.
Thoughts before listening: My Bloody Valentine's comeback album. I constantly see them get raved about by music journalists and I never really got it. So far on this list I've had their pre-Loveless album and it was fine. I'm sure I'll enjoy this as well. Review: I dont really like this. It's all just so droney and many of the songs don't feel complete. Every song is just a wall of noise with whispered vocals. I remember liking a few songs on the earlier album that stuck to more typical late 80s alt rock sound, but that is missing from this album. I'll give it 2-stars for at least being interesting even if it isn't actually enjoyable.
some of their older stuff is really good, but this is not a pleasing sound. listening to this album also made me almost fall asleep, not saying that in a good way
Bit like a shitter version of the Jesus and Mary Chain. The songs seemed to go on forever.
My most charitable assessment of this album is that it sounds a little bit like Cocteau Twins and has a very ethereal ambient sound. My less than charitable assessment of this album is that most of it sounds monotonous and I can barely distinguish the vocals from the rest of it like it's sort of a low-level wall of noise. This is the first album of theirs that I'm listening to on the list. And from what I can tell their other album Loveless is reviewed well. I'm looking more forward to listening to that than this album. The last four songs are a little bit better than the rest, with new you as my favorite because I can hear the instruments not covered in reverb noise.
Okay, aber hat jetzt keinen krassen Eindruck bei mir hinterlassen.
Just noise to me, which I guess is the point. I'd rather listen to Mogwai.
I don’t know if it deserves to be in the same category as Bjork, but I didn’t enjoy this. Maybe Bjork should have been a 1
¿Sabes cuándo empieza a sonar un disco y piensas "este rollo no es para mí"? Pues eso es este disco en mi caso. Que no digo que sea malo, pero no es para mí.
background music. buzzzy distorsion
Seemed more like ambient music—no selections really stood out.
Not my thing, but I didn't hate it. The music seems like a noisy jam session that they tried to make into songs. The all lowercase song titles almost dropped this down to a one star.
Did not enjoy. I have little experience in shoegaze music, so I’m clearly not the intended audience. I found it muddy, droning, low-fi and boring. I couldn’t understand one word of their lyrics as thy were buried in the mud.
Ok background music.
Loveless was much better. This is a muffled din of ambient mess. I see what they were going for but it was devoid if any melody or detail make it interesting.
Previously rated: Loveless (2/5) Isn't Anything (3/5) ********************** Bleh. This one sounded like the first one heard. Wispy, indecipherable lyrics over repetitive ambient noise. This is 2013?! Did we really need three albums from them? Wait, I'm less than 30% through this list. There could be many more! Best: in another way. Worst: nothing is
Maybe I’m not into shoegaze.
2 - good to listen to if you want an alternative sound without words
Still surprised they aren't a screamo band, still prefer the tracks with the male vocalist, still not a fan.
My least favourite MBV album. It has its moments, but mostly it is just noise that gets irritating very quickly.
i had high hopes for this :((
Nope.
Not much of a progression from Loveless and nothing on the album quite as interesting.
This is the album one would get if Brian Eno wiped his arse on a pineapple whilst a work experience kid recorded the noises. And that gets it an extra star.
sounded like emo ambient noise honestly. tolerable but not memorable
Not my coffee!!!??
Loveless is a fantastic album; several songs really stick with me, I find myself humming them days after listening. This album feels like a collection of b-sides that came 15 years too late to be interesting. The songs are fine, but mostly forgettable. It really lacks the magic that Loveless has. The only bright side to this album is that it makes me want to listen to Loveless again.
didn't really dig it idk
Not my style
The first MBV album I've listened to. Decent industrial sounding instrumentals and vocals, but not an album I'd listen to again.
Not my kind of music. Just distortion and emo lyrics.
It's just very loud noise, there first album is definitely there best and my favorite.
Not sure about this one. I mean, it was ok but it made me think of that Family Guy episode where Brian was trying to get his book published. You know? Except this time it's like "Whose leg do I need to hump to get my album on the 1001 list?" I will say I appreciate Brian's commitment to his art but question the choices of whoever submitted their leg.
New You was the track I liked the best on the album. With the distortion turned down to like 8 it was much more approachable than the rest which hits like an unflinching sonic affront. Not saying this track is amazing, but it's pretty good. Very hard to like this band then and still hard to like it now.
Meh
Best song - only tomorrow
Sounded like I was listening to music behind a door or underwater quite a muffled indistinct sound. Nothing to object to but not very clear
Meh, good background music
Heard it before?: Yes Enjoy it?: I don’t mind it, I just find their other records far better and to more my taste Favourite song: Track 2 - only tomorrow
Shoegaze.. do we need it? I don’t know. Do I need it? Definitely not
Honestly, I did not give this my dedicated attention and perhaps the rating is suffering, as a result. All I know is that I had it playing as I did some work and tasks today. The primary reaction that I had was to look at the speaker and roll my eyes and think “When will this end?” I mean, it didn’t hurt, but I found no enjoyment at all from the experience.
Did the name “shoe-gaze” really come from critics watching MBV look at their feet instead of the audience while performing? Too funny. I don’t know that this is a step forward from their previous albums, outside of the final songs becoming aggressive and noisy. Maybe it's here because it took 22 years to release. I prefer their earlier LPs. I’m surprised that 1001 would add 3 MBV LPS to their list, but according to Wiki this one got the hook, not surprisingly.
Nothing interesting at all about this album
Standard MBV noise
Ugh! Dismay, dreary, depressing - I didn't even finish the album (only the 2nd time) Life is too short for this album
The same noisy guitar drones through the album accompanied by a mumbling incomprehensible singing. This wasn't that great but I've heard worse.
its like a mediocre version of nine inch nails with tv static turned up in the background. very meh. should stay in the 2000s.
People here complaining that it’s too repetitive… and they’re right
I'm far from the biggest My Bloody Valentine fan, despite their sound being pretty adjacent to my taste. While Loveless had some great moments, I found there to be a lot of lackluster moments as well, and the general flow of the album to be lacking. While this album is much more consistent, it lacks the highlights of Loveless, and generally feels a lot blander. I really want to like these guys, but they never quite get there with any of their albums.
Couldn't get into it.
Not my thing
Saai
Net zo gruizig als die voorgaande platen. Ik kon er maar weinig van maken. Op een gegeven moment ging het me tegenstaan.
Gisteren hadden Anke en ik het over de term shoegazing. Nou, dat is dit dus. Al vind ik het zelf meer muzikaal navelstaren. Slaapmuziek.
I literally cannot hear a word they are saying, they may as well not speak at all. I see so much hype around mbv but I just do not get it at all. The genre of 'noise' just does not really encapsulate me at all, it is mostly an ear ache. I probably will not revisit this, but I hope it grows on me if I do choose to. Favourites: she found now / new you / nothing is
This was very much background music to a streaming exclusive coming of age California teenager tv show. Nothing much of value I didn’t hate it I would give it a 2.5
MBV (and shoegaze in general) is really not my cup of tea. I consider this album as basically b-sides to Loveless. Everything's in the same ballpark, but demonstrably more boring.
Started calm and non offensive then it turned in to a droning mess without purpose or soul. Saw that they didn't make another album after that which I was happy to hear.
This band is a dude who has built his entire identity on his sick tattoos. The guitar effects are cool and all, but there's got to be something more. Best track: in another way
Every MBV album is the same wall of fuzz that only gets a 2/5.
This feels a bit too much like hard work. Clearly a lot has gone into this, it's a really complex layered album, but it's a bit too far gone from what makes a pop song; there's not enough real energy and structure in most of it, and the overall effect is too heavy to be ethereal but too lacking in... something... to be dark. 2/5.
Dissonant, meandering, mumbling, fuzzy, unintelligible. It’s “A” type of music but not “My” type of music.
There are some interesting things going on here but mostly sounds like repetitive garage echoing in a trash can. I definitely need to be in the mood to listen to this but would prefer it in the background ... which would mean I wouldn't be lustening to it any way. I want to listen to this again with a more production focused ear to see if there is anything worth keeping or determine if I thought there was any hope of saving anything from this album. This is definitely not a "must listen to" album but I give a two in hopes that there is something experimentally interesting that could be improved upon. That said I could believe a second listen may confirm the masters need to be shredded in order to save future potential listeners.
In some ways, MBV reminded me of a band I really like, The Dandy Warhols, mostly in the sense that they seem to want to make pop music that demands something of the listener. But where the Dandy's give you ample riffs and hooks and melodies to grab hold of and then throw in obtuse indulgencies for good measure, MTV starts there and keeps pushing. There were moments of pleasure, but this was hard to listen to. I don't get why this is important. It's like annoying abstract art in sound.
Back in 1991, MBV's second album, Loveless, hit me like a ton of bricks. It was such a unique approach to guitar rock. It was dreamy and noisy at the same time with Bilinda Butcher's breathy vocals floating way under the mix. Who knows what she was saying but who cared. I drove a couple of hours to see them live. And even though my hearing was damaged for three days afterwards (loudest show I ever saw), I was so glad I went, for they vanished for the next 22 years. There were rumors of a follow-up. The story I heard was Kevin Shields had recorded two album's worth of material, but for one reason or another, he scrapped them. As the years went on, a new MBV album seemed as likely as Half-Life 3. And then one day it suddenly dropped. And the reviews were great. I don't know that I ever bought a CD so quickly. And ... it was fine? I mean, I knew it wasn't going to be Loveless, but I was hoping for something a little more interesting. All the MBV elements are there and that's cool, but where Loveless was ethereal, this one is rather suffocating. Sounds like it was recorded in a closet. Also, it seems rather safe. And kind of tired. And the glorious hooks that were all over Loveless are missing here. Maybe that's the point, but if so it's a lousy point. I tried listening to it today without any of this backstory. Just wanted to evaluate it as an album. My opinion remains unchanged. It's a case of too little too late.
Blah
Wasn’t into this at all. Nothing offensive really, except “nothing is”. New you is the only track that even resembled a song to me. They basically waited 20 years to drop a ambient music for studying and concentration youtube video. Best: new you MMM: unfortunately the only memorable thing about this album was the painful repeating guitar and drums for 3.5 mins on nothing is.
huh
Struggled a bit with this to be honest. Nois is fine but I also need a bit of a groove
Noise pop. Coñazo
I love a good raw feedback sounding album but nothing really got me on this one. There were a few small moments I thought a song was going to grab me but then it repeated the same pattern.
2.5 Difficult listen. Odd music.
1/9, 11%
I didn't think it was that bad, will have to listen to their first album. Second half of the record did drag out a bit
Fuck me, this is monotonous. Saved from a 1 by the electronic loveliness of is this and yes. And, lads, not using capital letters doesn’t make you look cool.
Not my favorite. Muddy guitar that sounds a little generic dirty rock guitar. 2/5
Just couldn't appreciate this album. The vocals seemed really low and I couldn't really hear them over the music. Music seemed to be a consistent hum and I could only really pick apart the chords and changes in a couple of songs.
mid bad valentine if you ask me. Not good content from them.
Not horrible, but pretty boring. I would put this on to do some homework or studying to.
Seeing "self produced" on an album description is rarely a good thing and "MBV" is a good example of why. The production is just bloody awful. It's a pile of wailing vocals buried under a muddy mess of instruments. Utterly unintelligible and completely ignorable.
Listened Before? N I understand that these guys were MIA for more than two decades at one point, during which their fans had given up hope of them ever producing anything again... but here they are. So, I believe there's a bit of rose-colored glasses syndrome going on here... because this record is awful. Repetitive, incomprehensible, and noisy. I won't stoop as low as to give it a 1 star review because I understand why it's here... but I will never listen to it again. It was bad. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Only Tomorrow
That was boring.
Seems to be missing what made their early stuff reasonably interesting. And that was a stretch
Hated the first few tracks. Distortion is not music sorry not sorry. Rare case where they lose a point off the average because they failed to pull off being artsy so badly I can't even muster pity for them
too noisy
A very uneventful and unnecessary album that was also plagued by awful (or intentially awful) mixing
Kinda boring and spacey.
Meh
Did another one before. It's a unique sound, but one that makes everything feel like a first draft, rather than actual finished songs. It's not for me.
Couldn't hear a damn thing
Prefiero el loveless.
Okay, I've now listened to all three MBV albums thanks to y'all, and this was definitely my least favorite. They are not my thing and I'm glad there's not more.
Just give me a good album pls
Offensively dull
There were aspects of this album that I really liked, but when taken as a whole it just fell flat. I genuinely love music that has a lot of interesting and even disperate things going on but this album really seemed to take that idea and make it boring somehow? I did really like she found now though
So fuzzy
Kinda boring
Jakbym słuchał soundtracku do kilku gier na raz.
4/10. Has the texture of porridge. Would probably be excellent to listen to if I was trying to fall asleep
Unwittingly and entirely against my will I have now listened to the ENTIRE My Bloody Valentine back catalogue. I wish I could say it had been in any way an enjoyable, interesting, or fulfilling 2 hours and 13 minutes. Whilst there is more identifiable tune going on here than their previous two efforts, it is still basically dirge, but with modern production. This album took from 1997 until 2011 to come to fruition. I would rather they hadn't bothered. Rating: 2/5 Playlist track: only tomorrow Date listened: 06/10/22
- Hey we invented a genre that's so dull the name is literally just staring at the floor, want to listen? Nah I'm alright thanks mate.
Atmospheric and moody, also dull and repetitious
Just keeps going on and on.
During the 4th song I wondered if the first song ended already. Sounds a bit like comforting noise
On the first listen I thought the car radio was broken and had to skip. On the earbuds it was okay I gues but I remember very little of it
Love MBV but this one isn't for me
Boring. Some new sounds but very monotonous.
I don’t really enjoy the shoe gaze genre. It feels like it’s trying to be modern psychedelic but without any substance or talent. I didn’t absolutely hate this album but I wouldn’t revisit it either. 3.7/10
Herranjestas miten tylsä levy. Miten voi olla näin paljon huonompi kuin loveless :D
Shoe gazing noise, can hear My Vitriol in Loveless - seems like a better album than m b v anyway. So rating this low but Loveless higher
Alt rock/indie. Genre is known as Shoegaze. Extreme volume and heavy on guitar texture/distortions. My Bloody Valentine is thought to be the godfathers of Shoegaze. New you was good, psychedelic experience Wonder 2 was trippy
thumbs down.
Two MBV albums? i don't know if i agree - i mean the first "Loveless" even if it's not my favourite music I can definitely understand being on the list; it really sounded and *felt* like nothing i'd heard before. I suppose though the same things I could never fully connect with on Loveless apply here as well - underwater/warbly effects to the extreme... just doesn't seem as revolutionary when it's another album of the same. None of these are truly "songs" in any traditional sense - again, that's kind of cool in the abstract but it's also not really working for me as any sort of background or atmospheric mood. I've just ended up either being annoyed/distracted at what is often approaching grating. The first half was fine - but after 20 minutes or so it really started to fall apart, and maybe it's simply that after 20 minutes of this ... that's enough. Also the final two cuts are omg please stop - especially "nothing is" - a joke on anyone who bought this album. come on, now. A 20 years waiting for the same thing is a long slog - I'm fine with Loveless on occasion but a big no to the remix. 4/10 2 stars.
Robert peut bien aller se faire foutre avec ses albums de merde de indie et de shoegaze sensés représenter les années 2010.
It was okay, good as background music
Very noisy. Some songs felt like I was listening to them on a radio station as I slowly left the station’s range and static took over.
I have tried and tried to get into Loveless, but the wall of sound buried melodies and mumbled vocals just don't do it for me. This album seems more of the same but it seems to have more moments where I found myself nodding my head and thinking ok yes this part does work. On a couple of occasions they dial back the distortion and feedback to where one can actually hear individual instruments. Still the overall feel is of pleasant noise instead of stirring music. 2.5 🌟
I'm not sure this album was worth the 22 year wait. The DJ Wrongspeed thing is annoying.
Though I love a few good noise & post-rock sounds -- A Place to Bury Strangers, Mogwai both come to mind -- I couldn't get into this.
5th May 2022 Listened in the morning, chilled in the evening. Quiet day. It goes straight in as if you’re late to the gig, or you’ve heard them playing in the garage and you want to see what the noise is. Speaking of noise, I think that’s what this is. In a good and bad way.
This was just loud
Slow, melancholic, droney. All together not too bad.
Not a big fan of MBV anyway, and this didn't change things.
2.75
Some songs took me back to my emo roots, but mostly it was bleh
Didn’t mind ‘in another way’ but overall boring.
det är väl sisådär. fattar inte den här genren.
Couldn't really get into it much.
There are a couple of songs that hit the stride quickly, like new you and if I am... but yeah, most of the others just miss the mark. Not something I'm likely to pull out ever again.
When I got this album, I just thought "Ok...let me listen to this 1-star album"... However, after listening to the whole album, I was kind of hypnotized by this noise ambiance song with dirty guitars....so, 2 stars are enough for the power of hypnotizing songs, and maybe this is the reason to include the album on this list.
not my cup of tea
I love the album artwork, but 2013's bloody valentine sounds remarkable similar to 1991's. There doesn't seem to be any stylistic innovation or growth, which is surprising when there's a 22 year gap between albums. It sounds like elevator music for a 2000's wannabe indie neo-noir film that no one saw. This is too much of a downer for me, I won't be coming back to it.
Guitarrero y un tanto oscuro. No me ha aportado nada y no me ha gustado que no se entienda casi nada de la voz del cantante
m b v My Bloody Valentine 2013 Genres: Rock Styles: Indie Rock, Shoegaze, Alternative Rock, Dream Pop 1. she found now (★⯨☆☆☆) 2. only tomorrow (★★☆☆☆) 3. who sees you (★⯨☆☆☆) 4. is this and yes (★☆☆☆☆) 5. if i am (★☆☆☆☆) 6. new you (★⯨☆☆☆) 7. in another way (★★⯨☆☆) -Llega a sonar bien un momento, pero sigue siendo la misma banda de mierda... 8. nothing is (★★⯨☆☆) 9. wonder 2 (★★☆☆☆) -TOTAL = ★⯨☆☆☆ (1,72) -Parece una banda con problemas mentales, especialmente depresión, y con un sonido diluido, que pareciera que quiere ser un instrumento más, uno insignificante... definitivamente claman porque alguien los saque de su miseria.
When I listen to an album this terrible, I think about all the people involved in the making of it and how not one of them thought this was a bad idea.
Just what I needed in my life. Another album that made me believe I was tripping my balls off while listening to it. This could very easily have been the sound track to a Stanley Kubrick movie because I have no idea what any of it was about. When there was vocals, it was breathy, foggy, and purposefully layered behind the instrumentals to make it difficult to grasp any of the words. When it was just the instruments, it was chaotic, aggressive, and so repetitive that you wanted to be institutionalized to get away from it. It’s not a matter of would I listen to this again, I don’t think I have the mental capacity to endure it after the first attempt.
I really thought I couldn't hate anything more than electronic music, I was wrong. I hate this more.
Most of this album sounded like either a) a radio station that was really going out of tune (mostly static) or possibly some kind of music that was way over-amped? or b) a skipping record. Did not enjoy.
if you want to know why the youts of today aren't having sex as much as past generations, just listen to this album. 1/5
I hadn’t heard of this band before, and it’s not really my sort of thing. One star...
Dreary, dull and largely tuneless. Wouldn’t listen again.
Too atmospheric for my taste, very boring and annoying.
1 stern
I don’t think I could hate an album more than this. This sounds like the noise a neighbors lawnmower makes next to your bedroom window at 6 AM on a Saturday. Muffled white noise guitar with whiny whisper vocals. No treble or bass. It also, somehow continues to get worse throughout. Really just awful. And in a very annoying, irritating way. 1/5.
Thats a no for me dawg
3/10
What's the actual point? Of a so long collection of songs that are merely instrumental with very airy vocals. And they are also soporific. Honestly, I can't find anything to like in here. For this to be called music is like a joke for me. To make very dreamy, monotonous songs doesn't imply you are interesting at all. And this album is not, either.
Noise. I wouldn’t be surprised if you told me the guitar part in this was made to purposefully induce headaches in a lab testing environment.
I’ve decided that I will make my reviews in quatrains. Here goes: The numbing drone of indie guitars A fitting soundtrack to review your scars Singer quietly croons And understands your wounds.
It was not my taste whatsoever to be honest... It was all just noise to me, with each track just blending into the next. It was one of those albums where you kind of just want it to end, in my opinion. I found no interest in any of the tracks, and after listening to the first one, I hoped that it was just a one-off and that the other songs would sound different and have a bit more to them, but they didn't. The vocals were lost in a reverby, distorted mess in most of it, so there was nothing really that stood out to pay attention to or give any interest towards. There were no tracks that stood out to me in this album, unfortunately.
Eyeroll. Now I have to go and thumbs-down all these songs so my streaming service doesn't play any of this shit again
It takes a lot for me to give an album a 1, but this accomplished that in less than 3 songs.
I was not expecting shoegaze. Was expecting more emo. Not really a fans and kinda disappointed tbh. I guess you could have sex to some of these songs. This is very similar to cigarettes after sex in the sense that every song sounds the same. The last two songs are grating. I want this to end
Not our vibe
Nope. Just no.
I kept waiting for something to happen and nothing ever did. This album is very much not my thing.
1.25 - There are some moments where I can recognize this is good music, but many more where I do not. I don't like this any more than I did the last time I tried it.
Awful
This is now my third My Bloody Valentine album I’ve listened to and I just can’t get into it. It’s all just sound and noise to me.
Rock/ punk, not sure. Strange music.
I enjoyed the vocals and the guitars a little bit, but a lot of the album just felt like noise for the sake of noise...
Boring schoegazer mcguffins
By the end, I felt on the verge of a panic attack. Absolute tripe.
Knew the artist name but had never knowingly listened to anything by them. Very floaty vocal and fuzzy loud guitar: I thought, in the right mood, I could potentially like it, but I was clearly not in the right mood as I listened to the first 1 and a half tracks and then abandoned the whole album until the next day. 24 hours later and I don't like it any better. Only Tomorrow seems long and plodding with not enough ideas for its runtime. Then Who Sees You did basically the same thing. They seem to enjoy bending notes in a way that makes it sound like you're listening to it on faulty turntable that's struggling to run at a consistent speed. I abandoned any attempt to comment individually on specific tracks at this point, because they pretty much all sounded the same to me (though I didn't totally hate New You). In general, the longer it went on, the more bored I became. I was unsurprised to learn it was in the 2014 version of the book, but then got removed by later revisions. It's not as dreadful as other albums I've given a 1 star to, but 2 stars would be laughable, so: 1/5
Not a fan of this. it all sounded the same 1/5
There were moments in a few songs where something happened and I found it interesting, things that in other songs would lead into a greater, more interesting picture. Those moments in this record just kind of went on and on and never really led to anything. I don't like this record.
noise
Three from these noisemakers on this list is madness. Reverb and distortion wrecks the music and completely masks the vocals, if even there are any - I couldn’t even tell on a couple or three songs.
i d g i
Is this even music? What is this?
A different kind of boring.
wa is deze existentiële crisis kan mss goe zijn op heeel specifieke momenten 1.5
???
I don’t mind weird music, but weird music that seems like the band was completely uninterested in being here is the worst. This is probably one of the top 10 worst albums I have ever heard. At least it made me want to turn it off and listen to Failure
Previously unknown. Too noisy for me.
Mam wrażenie, jakby nagrywali to na kalkulatorze i miksowali na pralce automatycznej. Nie wytrwałem dwóch kawałków.
I get My Bloody Valentine and My Chemical Romance mixed up. I don't think either are my scene.
What a horrible night to have ears. Look, I'm a fan of Ride, Sonic Youth, I don't mind some some fuzz, some "sonic landscapes", some whooshing, but this is pretty fucking bad. At least Loveless has some catchy tunes amidst the murk. Nothing redeeming here though.
Excuse me, while I go hang myself.
Meh
Wow. This is just awful and unlistenable.
What even is this? Why?! Seriously, WHY?! It's boring, it never ends, and says nothing.
This sounded like someone learned how to play the drone string on a banjo and forgot that they needed melody to go with it in order to ACTUALLY MAKE A GOOD SONG. Drove me spare. Occasionally I'd hear something reminiscent of a lyric, only to wonder if I actually heard anything. No. This is not music. My bloody Valentine? More like my BORING Valentine. I'd rather listen to Kid Rock. At least he can modulate his voice and speak above a whisper. My Rating: 1/5
Noisy rubbish. Did not enjoy
Why so bad
I liked the first track..... It would have made a great (interesting) opening track if that's what it was but then every track after that turned out to be the same.... whispery vocals with badly played guitar effects over the top.
Depressing Shoegaze / Noise Pop. This album took 16 years to record due to the band breaking-up 1 year into recording, and even after reuniting 9 years later, it still took another 6 years - but I wish they hadn't bothered. I'm surprised that the band reunited because the thought of continuing with the making of this dreary album would have not have appealed to me. How this album received critical acclaim and was named among the best albums of 2013 is totally beyond me - I don't remmeber 2013 being that bad.
If there was a '1001 Albums I never want to listen to again' I would put this one on that list.
Calling it dogshit is disrespectful to dogshit
No words needed, just no
Very dreamy. I could never really get into My Bloody Valentine. I like one of their songs, but ir’s all kind of boring to me. I prefer fast stuff to slow, melancholy, dreamy stuff. Fav song is ‘nothing is’.
Started out awful and got worse as it went on
Odd choice idk why it’s on here
This is a very noisy album. It starts off as a cacophony of distortion and ends the same way. The middle part sounds like the band Air and none of it goes anywhere. It's very rare for me to be irritated by music but this has reached that level.
I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a My Bloody Valentine album before. Going in, I was half-expecting depressed-teenager / emo vibes, so I pressed play on mbv with an open mind. This can be summed up very simply: listening to this album was a miserable experience. The vocals are buried to the point of being unintelligible, the sound is endlessly droney, and nothing ever really goes anywhere. It feels shapeless and joyless, like a wall of grey noise with no hook, no tune, and no payoff. I get that this is “the point” for some people, but for me it was truly dreadful. Favourite tracks: I honestly couldn’t pick one. Every track blurs into the next, like indistinct mumbling background noise that offers absolutely nothing. Least favourite tracks: She Found Now, Is This and Yes – some of the most boring, aimless tracks I’ve ever had the misfortune of sitting through. Album artwork: Really cool cover. Easily the best thing about the album.
They could use this album as a means of interrogating prisoners of war. Zero stars.
Pas du tout du tout mon truc
Ambient music but not the kind of ambiance I would ever want
Too much reverb for my liking
My Bloody Valentine ist eine irisch-britische Band, die mit m b v 2013 nach über zwanzig Jahren ihr erstes Studioalbum veröffentlichte. Die Aufnahmen entstanden über einen langen Zeitraum hinweg, überwiegend in Kevin Shields’ eigenen Studios sowie in weiteren privaten Studios in Irland und England. Inhaltlich und klanglich knüpft das Album direkt an die Arbeitsweise der frühen 1990er Jahre an, ohne nostalgisch zu wirken. Musikalisch bewegt sich m b v im Spannungsfeld von Shoegaze und Alternative Rock. Charakteristisch sind stark verfremdete Gitarren, schwebende Drones und eine zurückhaltende, oft fast im Klangbild aufgelöste Gesangsführung. Stücke wie „She Found Now“, „Only Tomorrow“ oder „Wonder 2“ zeigen unterschiedliche Facetten dieses Ansatzes: von dichten, langsamen Klangflächen bis zu rhythmisch verschobenen, beinahe technoid wirkenden Strukturen. Das Album wirkt geschlossen und konsequent, verzichtet auf klare Hits zugunsten einer durchgängigen Atmosphäre und fordert konzentriertes Hören. m b v bestätigt My Bloody Valentine als Band, die ihre eigene Ästhetik weiterentwickelt, statt sie zu reproduzieren.
Irritating like a short blanket.
If you want to listen to 45 minutes of a dude playing with an effects pedal while people moan incoherently, this is the album for you. 1⭐️
This is not music to my ears. On Nothing Is it sounded like stuck on a scratch vinyl.
Gave me a headache and turned it off midway through song 3. You know it's edgy because of all of the lowercase letters.
Shoegaze dream pop. The first and last few songs have way too much noise. The middle songs are less so and slightly more enjoyable. "nothing is" is terribly monotonous. loveless is better and innovative.
Not for me. 1/5
For some reason I had never heard this band. I was actually excited when it got assigned to me. I was really looking forward to listening to it. I thought "oh, maybe this is a cool band that I can discover". Nope. There's nothing there that grabs me. No beat. No melody. No interesting lyrics. No emotion. No highs, no lows. No twists, no turns. Just endless monotony. It's not even offensive, it's just boring nothingness. I listened to it twice and, somewhere along the way, forgot I even had it on. It just drones on and on and on. Even when it continued playing back at the first song after going through the whole album the first time, I didn't realize I had already heard it before. There are no memorable songs on this one - at all. Apparently this took 22 years from their last album to make. Seems like something someone could have knocked out in an afternoon just fucking around with some effects pedals. I saw that this site is going to give me other albums by this band - so I'm bracing for a similar experience - but hoping/wishing it's somehow better. I read that the "shoegaze" genre was inspired by songs like Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles), All I Want to Do (Beach Boys), and Heroes (David Bowie). Maybe that is so, but the big difference is that those are good songs that are enjoyable to listen to and this not at all. Liked songs on Spotify: 0/9 Rating: 1/5 (should be 0)
Not a fan personally. All feels very same-y and nothing really stands out. Almost feels more like a background noise album?
I almost enjoyed the few moments of this album that sounded like music.
Didn't like this one. Too much distortion and fuzz.
This… was not for me. I like to sing to songs but can appreciate when the music is good and there aren’t any lyrics. That being said, I couldn’t understate these lyrics and it just sounded like noise to me. I’ll try again but I did not enjoy this album
não gostei
Not a big fan of the ambient sound that the whole album gives.
This is a whole album recorded with all instrument and vocal tracks on the same level so it all just sounds like music mush.
Songs will never end
All that time and money and they only managed to sound like the middle school band down the road from who also cannot stay in tune and insists on playing every effects pedal at once. The Emperor has no clothes, but the English music critics are unwilling to say so. I need a bit more My Funny Valentine in my life, not My Bloody Valentine.
Day715 - i dropped my guitar down a couple flights of stairs and it wrote a my bloody valentine song
Absolute cat splat
1.11
Seems like endless experimental guitar fuzz. Hard to locate an actual song anywhere on this one.
what if we made an album where the same indistinguishable chords are played again and again with the worlds quietest and mumbly vocals fighting to be heard above it. AWFUL.
Nope.
Bloody horrible. Bloody awful. Bloody nonsense. I'd like to bloody these talentless idiots. Who is the moron that thought this should be recorded? And to the author of 1001... F.U. Nobody, and I mean nobody needs to listen to these crap. Ever.
If you think you missed an MBV concert, just take any vinyl record, put some scratches on it, play it on max volume, leave the room, close the door, go downstairs into the bathroom, close the door, dunk your head in the toilet: now you are listening to m b v. No melody, no lyrics, just a smear of sound on repeat, lacking even tuning.
Never heard of album have heard of band. She found now is fine? Music is pretty good, lyrics don’t add anything. Not really Catchy at all. Not a fan of only tomorrow. Some cool sounds but not a song I’ll ever listen to again. Same with only tomorrow. Too much guitar so far. Need a little variety. This is angsty teen music and I am not an angsty teen. Really good guitar solo on who sees you with that being said. Is this and yes sucks. It’s not a song it’s low fi wavy beats to study to. 4.5 minutes too long. Still waiting for the song to start. If I am is better but still not great. New you is more of the same. Vocals are way too quiet. Last 45 seconds is such a waste of time. I actually kind of like in another way, something abt it is better than the rest. With that being said, it’s a minute too long once again. Still waiting for “nothing is” to start. Same bad guitar riff for 3 minutes, what was the point. Didn’t even fade into the closer. Again, what was the point. You can’t tell me someone heard that and said “this is a great song”. Album didn’t stand the test of time. Influential in the sense that it’s a blueprint of what not to do when making an album. 1 star.
Watchgaze
Wow! This album is exceptionally bad. 1 star or F-.
2nd My Bloody Valentine album in my first 100 and after this one I can confirm I am not a fan of these guys. I find them boring and a bit pretentious. The good news is, there is only one more of their albums on this list. The last album got a 1/5, this one gets 1/5, and baring anything crazy I'm anticipating the third one also getting a 1/5.
Very stressful listening
Just another ex-1001 album!™ http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex Such miserable tripe! Cliché shoegaze. We get it, they found the distortion pedal and couldn't figure out how to give it a rest.