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background music. buzzzy distorsion
Good album if in the right mood. Standout songs: If I am New you Wonder 2
Seemed more like ambient music—no selections really stood out.
wow so atmospheric
Dream synth
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.
Does this belong on the list? Probably not, but I preferred it to their debut album - there are some good atmospheric tracks to get lost in, and even though they don’t all hit the spot it’s fairly listenable throughout. The second half was more interesting; the dreamy track 6 and industrial track 7 were standouts for me. 3 / 3.5
an album that feels like it came from a dream. soothing, distorted and full of emotion... really i listened to this and i felt like it really really resonated with my mind, body, and soul. in terms of how i'm feeling right now this album nails it to the wall. ughhhhhhh jesus christ on a motorbike.
I'm torn on this one. I think it doesn't make sense without knowing and appreciating Loveless. The first three tracks seem a continuation in the mould, a slightly worse version in my opinion, but still quite good. They then seemed to put a halt to that (quite literally with the ending who sees you). They then appear to showcase new stuff they're trying out in two further sections. I prefer the middle 3 to the last 3, but I honestly don't think it deserves the acclaim it gets. If this is on the list over Loveless then that's an absolute crime against humanity. Good but not great.
This album might have a place as background to an interesting conversation where you don't want the music to compete. "Did I hear something good in that last song?" No. No you did not. It might also be useful as a party soundtrack for introverts. Sure to get them talking. "This music sucks." "Sure does. Wanna leave?" This will be the third album of 9 that I've given 1 star. I may have been hasty in those other 2. This is the first I've actually disliked. Maybe "forgettable" should rate 2 stars. That doesn't make sense either. Can we have a "kill it with fire" rating for the truly awful?
Not a fan. Could not make it through.
meh
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.
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Ok background music.
2.9 because this really isn’t my taste and I skipped through every song.
Couldn’t stand the singing. I kept waiting for music to play and all I got was random noises.
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.
Terrible
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.
This one was a wild journey. At first I hated it, then slowly it started to grow on me. The last couple tracks were actually kind of enjoyable, even.
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
I am no MBV fan and this is some straight dookie. I despise this style of mixing where the lyrics are intentionally unrecognizable and the instruments are way too loud.
Distorted can’t understand a lyric. Absolutely shit.
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
2 - good to listen to if you want an alternative sound without words
- This never ends. It's like the same song over and over. - Probably met it in the wrong moment of my life.
I can’t believe we’ve had two MBV albums and neither have been Loveless. That’s kinda my only downside to their other two records: they arent Loveless. Thats not to say this isnt great. I really really like it. And that’s despite the anticipation given how long they took to release this and the expectation around it. They really nail that expansive ‘wall of sound’, and this more than previous albums builds on that with some interesting background production that goes with it. Especially as the album goes on it (naturally) slowly grows into something different. Not a change in direction, not a change in sound, more just a little nod. But thats enough. I do get why people dont rate them - they are a band that you have to be in the mood for, and thats coming from a fan of theirs, but I think once they click they are a very special band. A strong 4.5, possibly a 5 but chalking 0.5 off for having to be in the right mood.
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.
Still surprised they aren't a screamo band, still prefer the tracks with the male vocalist, still not a fan.
Maybe if they had turned down the distortion and not drowned out the singers this would be a good album. A real mess that just annoyed me more the longer it went on.
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
To me this is still the "new" MBV album that I had not got around to listen to, but then I discovered it is already eleven years old. In any case, I listened to it today multiple times. It is excellent and contains both accessible and less accessible songs (towards the end). I liked all of them, and this is a 5* album. To compare: the previous two MBV albums are 10/10 (made more impact and have a bit stronger songs) whereas I would give this one 9/10.
My least favourite MBV album. It has its moments, but mostly it is just noise that gets irritating very quickly.
This doesn't reach the threshold, what a bloody crap.
3.5, i see the influence of most of my favorite albums but it's just a bit boring at times at face value
every song is fantastic
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
i had high hopes for this :((
Man, I love this sound. The reverb and distortion are front and center on every song and I find it very satisfying, like scratching an itch. It just feels good. The thing about this kind of music is that the production can take all the attention on a first listen and it takes a few spins before you hear the songwriting. I had some errands to run today so I was able to get through the album a few times and started grooving to the early songs. The last few tracks are wild! “nothing is” rocks so hard. Just wall-to-wall one riff and nothing else. Really cool. And the closer “wonder 2” is mesmerizing. It pushes what I was saying earlier about reverb and distortion to the extreme.
Lots of warbly fuzzy goodness to chew on. I feel like I missed the boat on My Bloody Valentine somehow and never got around to giving them the amount of listens that I've been prescribed to by friends over the years. I'm really never let down when I hear some of their songs though, but I think the listening context is really important. Thankfully, I listened to this on a Thursday morning shortly before Christmas with nothing on my calendar. There's this sense of wonder that I feel when I listen to them, like an ambiguous "I don't have the slightest clue about what this song is about but I get it as a vibe". It's a cool thing, and pretty unique overall for someone like me who likes to dive into music, pull out all of the pieces, and try to make sense of it all. It makes it easy for me to hand over control of the wheel and just enjoy the ride. Not many bands / genres can I do that with and I'm always appreciative when it happens.
yasss liked a lot
So so so good
trop stylé. dur de vivre dans l’ombre de loveless mais c’est pas un trashy second album après un gros hit, surtout qu’il sort genre 20 après
l'album est une montée d'acide. Au début on marche sur des nuages, puis on commence a penser au repas de famille interminable du réveillon. Un mélange de marshmallows et de Crunch. Je met 4 psk les 3 derniers morceaux sont inécoutables tellement ils sont ultra perchos on comprend que dalle
Un incontournable du shoegaze période 5eme république. Un bruit d’aspirateur en fin de vie pour certains, le cri d’une armée de angsty teenagers pour d’autres.
is this and yes weird album only tomorrow is nothing sounds fun wonder 2 would recommend b m w
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
Nope.
Not much of a progression from Loveless and nothing on the album quite as interesting.
hum that was something
The shoegaze GOATs. Honestly this album may even beat out Loveless for me. I can’t believe it really happened still.
I think this will be my third My Bloody Valentine album that I’ve listened to. From memory, I thought the other two were quite rubbish, so I can’t say with any honesty that I’m raring to go with this one today. I’ve made this commitment though, the honourable decision to listen to music every day, so let’s listen. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: only tomorrow Ok, so this was markedly better than the other albums. I can’t ever say why this is, because it’s still the usual noisy music with lazy singing, but I just vibed better with this than the others. It does make me wonder if the others are worth going back to and listening with a fresh set of ears, but I realistically probably won’t do that. This was fun though.
They should have stayed broken up.
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.
Bloody Awful.
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.
sounded like emo ambient noise honestly. tolerable but not memorable
I’m sorry but this shit sucks lol
First half is more Isn't Anything than Loveless. Second half stretches out a bit more into new territory. Sorry to say, nothing close to as good as Loveless.
Només el mèrit d'aparèixer per sorpresa 22 anys després d'haver donat vida a un clàssic imperible com 'Loveless' i a més fer-ho amb un treball que podria haver estat la seva continuació 1 ó 2 anys després ja té un mèrit inqüestionable. 'm b v' mereix la seva pròpia atenció i, a l'igual que la producció històrica de My Bloody Valentine, viu de l'atmòsfera que aconsegueix crear en l'ambient exterior i en el teu interior. Capaç de posar-te nerviós, odiar-los, estimar-los, relaxar-te, i moltes coses més en poc més de 45 minuts. Eren i són únics
Everyone I know who likes music I like, loves My Bloody Valentine. Bands I love, love My Bloody Valentine. Never in my life have not got something has hard as I don’t get My Bloody Valentine. 3.7/10
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
It’s really impressive that a band can take so much time off and come back with something like this. I don’t think that this album is as consistent all the way through as their previous album, but Loveleless is a seminal album, so I don’t expect a repeat of that.
It sounds as if the band is even bored by these songs.
Not my style
last 2 tracks were kinda cool, i'm just not a big mbv fan.
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 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.
It's just very loud noise, there first album is definitely there best and my favorite.
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 was a solid 2 star album until track 8, when I questioned if my Spotify was broken.
1/5 Yeah, I’m not finishing this.
Not as great as the first 2, but surly very strong
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.
horrible, had a headache by song 4
Rubbish. Moaning and noise
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.
a worthy successor to loveless here’s hoping it’s not another 20 year wait for another mbv album
Pretty good but a real music journalist choice
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.
This album is like a long weekend with nothing to do but by Saturday morning, you've gotten lost in something completely gluttonous and consuming and just give in. This is yours, you keep it all to yourself and quietly decide this is how you're going to spend the next three days ... getting lost in the drone-y feedback and static abyss.
“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.
Meh
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.
I don’t get it
Quite enjoyed it, very different to my usual
Okay, so there's unique sound here. That said, "unique" does not necessarily imply "good". In this particular case, affairs are borderline unlistenable.
A little flat at times but glimmers of intrigue.
Love the vibes, but can get tiring after awhile. 3/5
At times it sounds like there’s a loose cord, MBV really lives in the sludge but they’re comfortable there and they’re good at it. They make music best appreciated by headphone listening, the sparse guitars and beautiful vocals blend so well with the whirls and distortion. I know that the “not my cup of tea” dorks are gonna dork it up in the reviews but MBV really does an open mind to let both the sludge and beauty in. 4 stars
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.
Best song - only tomorrow
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.
Melodic and haunting, this is low key a solid LP. All the hallmarks of an indy album, which for me is what makes this great, its doesnt feel over produced, but its an actual indy sounding LP.
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
Indescribably boring. This genre as a whole completely flies in the face of what I find fun and engaging when it comes to listening to music. Interesting production, stylistic diversity, instrumental virtuosity, lyrical depth. All of which are not present here. If the goal of this type of music is to put you into a boredom induced sleep, mission achieved. I will never revisit another MBV album in my life. My bloody waste of time.
Noisy, muddled and often unlistenable (e.g. "who sees you"), this is another one of those albums that seems to be the list simply because the band is from the UK. It is difficult to understand the vocals as the lead singer mumbles his way through the songs. "is this and yes" is another example of how awful things get. It's like one of those songs that the free streaming channels play on show breaks because they can't get anyone to advertise with them. Don't get me wrong, I love guitars and fuzz pedals but this was too much fuzz. Even the vocals are fuzzy. Why so much fuzz? I couldn't wait for the album to end but it did. It was terrible.
This is appalling.. "nothing is" - legit, is this stuck in the groove? Dismal, almost unlistenable. The absolute best thing one can say of this is that the relief one feels when it stops is extremely welcome.
Phew. OK. This was a nice surprise. My first thought was "ugh, only 9 albums in and I'm going to have to cut my ears off". In my head 'My Bloody Valentine' equals 'Bullet for my valentine' which turns out actually means I thought 'My Chemical Romance'. 'm b v' is none of that. It's a gloriously wonky, fuzzy, buzzy stream of noise that I can fully get behind. I'm not sure what I would classify it as. It reminds me more of trip-hoppy Bristolian stuff. But punkier. And also more ethereal. Really pleased to have discovered it.
You can't convince me that every MBV song doesn't sound EXACTLY like every other MBV song. 1 cookie cutter out of 5 🍪
An album that feels like I’ve been given a peek into someone’s train of thought. It sounds like a distorted dream. Because the lyrics are behind the music, it gives me the feeling that someone is trying to communicate with me with a room filled with hundreds of people. “is this and yes” gives a nice break to reset and finish the rest of the album.
Not my thing
Honestly, this just sounded like a lot of noise. I'm sure there was a point here, but I'm just not hearing it.
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.
Meh, good background music
m b v beautifully walks the line between what's expected/required and new. The record gets better and better as it plays, and starts in familiar fuzzy territory. The band isn't hook-heavy, and they aren't defining a sound any more. Instead, m b v's all about shades of meaning in noise.
Still weird enough to be good.
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
Sucks
Noise pop. Un tostonazo sin sentido. Un 1.
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?
10/10 wow, MBVs discography is so good I guess all I have left to hear is Isn’t Anything
Shoegaze.. do we need it? I don’t know. Do I need it? Definitely not
I love the ethereal fuzz of MY Bloody Valentine so much. This is my 3rd album of theirs on this list, and they absolutely grow in my estimation each and every time. This rating is really for the band overall, I'm not sure if this individual album is truly their best. I'll need to revisit it over the rest of my life!
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.
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.
When we listened to mbv's Loveless so long ago, I was immediately taken by the muddy, muffled-ness of it. I could hear distinct melodies and I loved them. They instantly felt like mine. I was excited to hear more. I didn't find this album quite so easy, not as immediately likable. But after a couple of listens, I'm hearing more to distinguish the songs and am enjoying the drone. It's not quite mine yet but I can imagine it getting there.
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.
i think it's cool to make sentences without capital letters so i really like how they did this with the list of songs i like that writing style much more than i like this album
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.
I've never liked Shoegaze music and this album is a prime example of why... its murky, noisy, muddy sounding and headache inducing.
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.
Cheers. Sons crying.
Christ, this is ten years old already?! I was quite excited about it at the time, but now all that sticks is the jungle song and this exquisite burst of feedback on the second track, a squall that’s up there with the one that opens the second guitar solo in the live version of ‘What Goes On’ on the Peel Slowly box set, an electronic creak so delightful that it automatically makes the entire record worthwhile. How does Kevin Shields write such instantly forgettable song titles? It’s a genuine gift that he honed over the course of MBV’s career - Isn’t Anything actually has quite a few memorable titles, Loveless less so, though Only Shallow, Loomer and Soon have some stick, but m b v smashes it, with only wonder 2 still lingering in memory. I’m sure Kevin’s trolling us with the “2” there… I shall listen to the album now. It’s further move towards mood and timbre works, though there are tunes here. Second track (only tomorrow, had to look it up) does a nifty trick in using a stuttering guitar effect to compose the main motif, a wet dream for psychedelic gear heads - nice one, Kevlar! The delightful feedback squall is around 1:56, if anyone wants to look it up… MBV attracts obsessives, who radiated a field of rumour and random facts around them such that if you read the UK music press in the 90s you’d absorb stuff from, even as a casual MBV-liker. What’s nice about this album is that it came out utterly unannounced maybe a decade after most had stopped caring about this myth of an album, no fanfare, and sounded exactly like them, and even had a jungle track throwing back to that week or so when quite a few people got excited for a week when they heard MBV had a jungle-album oven-ready in 1996 or so. Heck, I was excited. It’s a pretty good album! I doubt I’ll listen to it more than once every few years, but I’d say the same about Loveless. Aside: two of my favourite tracks by Kevin Shields are the result of him dicking around with other bands’s work to create chaos - his mbvarkestra remix of Primal Scream’s “If they move, kill ‘em” and Mogwai’s “Fear Satan”. I wish he’d display more freedom with his own band’s work, MBV free jazz.
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
I listened to the new Parannoul album a couple of weeks ago. I understood as many of the lyrics of After The Magic as I did m b v, and I do not speak a word of Korean. I at least understood the vibe of After The Magic. I do not understand what m b v was going for. I’ve listened to Loveless, what music nerd hasn’t? Loveless is a good album. m b v isn’t. It’s incoherent, it’s rambling, it’s ambient in a way that shoegaze shouldn’t be. According to bad faith critics, shoegaze is a genre that shouldn’t be interesting, isn’t interesting to anyone other than those paying attention to them themselves, to their own footware. Good shoegaze is better than all the bad faith critics give it credit for. Good shoegaze is music that is worth paying attention to, because it is subtle, but also active, because it is simple, but contains multitudes. It is important for the same reason as punk, it seems amateur, but is far more complex than anyone could imagine on first listen. Loveless is good shoegaze. Loveless seems simple, but contains multitudes. After The Magic is good shoegaze. After The Magic seems simple, but contains multitudes. m b v seems simple. m b v is simple. It is from one of the sound’s pioneers, but it does not push the sound forward. It is an album that looks backward rather that forward. At times it feels like consolidation rather than progress, which would have worked, had the album been released a decade earlier. As such, it seems… simple. It seems basic. Halfway through this album I gave up on active listening and went and did housework. This is background listening. I cannot think of any other way to describe it
There's better shoegaze out there. Much better. This is fine, but it's by no means great.
just awful. quit partially into track 3
Didn't enjoy this one at all, but its was alright
There is no mistaking a mbv record
Now will fully admit I think I was expecting something more like MCR - so that was jarring from the start. And I was listening with only one headphone on (got to keep vigilant for those Amazon deliveries) so I thought perhaps the actual music was being played in the absent earphone. But nope, not the case. I found it boring and annoying with no redeeming features.
Why is this on the list? Garbage. Zero stars if I could.
Þetta er lágværara en mig minnti. Voða dreamy. Ekki McDreamy.
My second favourite MBV album
Stupid sexy hoover noises
Gr8 innit
I don't get it at all. Never have.
Nothing interesting at all about this album
Standard MBV noise
Imagine putting out a literal masterpiece and then having the task of creating something to come after it. Now, m b v is no loveless, but it’s still really fucking good and definitely holds its own! Love it.
Mbv I had them mixed up with My Chemical Romance- so I was really surprised. Was not expecting noisey, textural art rock. Probably the best of this kind of stuff we’ve had so far. I love the super saturated fuzzed out sound on the first few tunes. After a while I kind of need a break dynamically or texturally. Some of this is pretty challenging like the repetitive broken record thing that happens. Cool to have a repetitive trance inducing thing but still pretty challenging. I like the 2nd half of the album and cool how the sound changes throughout kept surprising me. Last song I think “Wonder 2” was my favorite. Something about the busy drums with the swelly guitars reminded me of tales of topographic oceans. Pretty crazy how it was recorded over 13 years. Kind of interesting how it can sound drastically different and consistent at same time. tough one to rate. Some of it is so great but also challenging enough that I probably won’t always want to listen throughout. 5
Loved this!! Really dig the sludgy fuzzed out vibe, fav song was who sees you. Def gonna keep this on rotation and check out more of their stuff
I feel like I’m gonna be in the minority here but I loved this album. Only tomorrow especially at the end was great. Love all the percussion in who sees you. Nothing is could be edited down but that’s my only complaint. I would listen to this album over and over again and feel like I would like new things.
Ugh! Dismay, dreary, depressing - I didn't even finish the album (only the 2nd time) Life is too short for this album
Boring in a way that I kind of liked but man I'm never listening to this again.
The same noisy guitar drones through the album accompanied by a mumbling incomprehensible singing. This wasn't that great but I've heard worse.
Just sounds like noise
didnt really catch me but on a rainy day this will definetly hit
Meh
Surpreendente a beleza sonora desse álbum. Realmente entregaram uma experiência auditiva carregada de camadas sonoras e principalmente pelas guitarras distorcidas.
3/5
its like a mediocre version of nine inch nails with tv static turned up in the background. very meh. should stay in the 2000s.
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
Great comeback album from the shoegaze kings. Really enjoy this album, but it just isn’t as good or as important as loveless. Hence only 4 not 5 stars
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.
ambient, ethereal music buried under distorted guitars for most of the songs. it was an interesting listen, to be sure.
Couldn't get into it.
Not bad.
Not my thing
Letting this wash over me like a wave of fuzzy distorted endorphins. Fantastic stuff. (Loveless is even better).
i hadn't given this album a real shot before this - i kinda thought it would be mediocre, but it was pretty damn good. not on the level of loveless of course but still great. it's kinda difficult for me to rate shoegaze albums because as long as the album is good I kind just sink into the feeling but I think a five is in order.
Why did i not know what this sounded like
I still prefer loveless, but this record was really able to set a cool vibe and atmosphere. Some cool electronic elements on here as well.
Didn't know this was on the list! I mostly consider this a slightly different and slightly less good album than Loveless. I'd guess I listen to Loveless 10-15 times for every listen of m b v on average? That said... I always feel surprised by this one when I listen to it. I do feel it holds up better than Isn't Anything. Better than Ride - Nowhere for sure. Less good than Slowdive - Slowdive if we're talking shoegaze reunion albums. Certainly less good than Slowdive - Souvlaki. So once again I find myself comparing an album to some of my favorites of all time, deciding whether it's a 4 or a 5. ...And it's definitely a 5. I guess it's more like a 4.5 rounded up, but... No way I'm giving this the same rating as Nowhere lol. It's shoegaze, the production is fucking wild and beautiful... Doesn't hurt I saw them live on this tour. I love it. How about a 4.85? That feels right.
It’s like the Platonic ideal of an MBV album without being cartoonish or self-caricature.
As much as it can drone on, that’s exactly the magic behind this album. A soundscape to lose yourself in.
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.
Saai
Cool. Dit vind ik wel tof. Soort van The Cure in een underground gehaktmolen.
Net zo gruizig als die voorgaande platen. Ik kon er maar weinig van maken. Op een gegeven moment ging het me tegenstaan.
Interessant experiment om als band je plaat op te nemen net naast de startbaan van een vliegveld terwijl de Boeings voorbij komen razen.
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
What was that. Sounded like a bunch of instruments running into each other
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
I do not like shoegaze at all
Any follow-up to the flawless Loveless was going to be a daunting effort with impossible expectations. That the follow-up took 20+ years only adds to those expectations. Despite all of that m b v landed as a great third record from My Bloody Valentine. It has everything you'd expect from the band. It doesn't ascend to the impossible heights of Loveless but it's still a phenomenal album and a great companion listen to their previous masterpiece.
Nothing to say about this. It just sort of exists.
I have only ever heard 'when you sleep' from 'loveless' before. I love that song so I'm expecting good things. The first song clearly demonstrates that this album is still shoegaze, like 'loveless' 22 years before. However, the more I listen, it sounds like it was influenced by... pop. Specifically electropop, with loops. Not what I was expecting on the second half, from 'if i [sic] am' until the end. In fact, 'nothing is' is a rave track and no-one can tell me otherwise. I can understand the lead singer better on this album, which is positive. I'm thinking an 8 or a 9 out of 10. 'new you' was probably my favourite, but none, including that one, really stood out. Nevertheless, I loved the overall cohesive sound so I'll give it a 9/10. I will listen again.
Hypnotizing and fascinating. Similar to one of my favorite bands, Slowdive and 4AD label groups. Real find.
I had heard the name of the band but never heard their music, which is unlike anything else I’ve heard. I looked up all the lyrics on genius.com, and the only comment on any of the songs could have been a comment on all the songs — every line is “wonderfully cryptic.”
I think it really comes down to this: You either love their 'sound' or you don't. If you do then you're transported to a trance-like place of fuzziness, drones and distortion. If you don't then you're transported to a trance-like place of fuzziness, drones and distortion.
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.
Such a large shadow was cast on My Bloody Valentine in the years following Loveless that it became all the more plausible that no new music would ever come from them again. Now that m b v has past its ten year threshold, it can be safely said that, no matter how close we may appear to be, the large shadow appears to be in the shape of this album than the one that preceded them. For m b v is not just a continuation of what Loveless achieved, it is also a markedly decisive evolution of their sound, incorporating spacy ambiance, sudden stops and instrumental passages that pulverize and leaves one asking for more. For an album whose anticipation was greater than expected, the wait was rather worth it.
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.
Melodisch monoton, inhaltlich exquisit
It feels like an album of three parts. The first part feel a bit like the continuation of their classic from the 90's. After that the sounds changes a bit and moves from shoegaze into the ambient postrock territory. The album stays interesting but not as much as before. I picks up again at the end when they focus a bit more on the drumworks. The drum n' bass rhythms in 'wonder 2' are amazing. And even though I really like a bunch of noise, 'nothing is' just don't do it for me. This kind of experiment has been done before and better. If this album was released two years after Loveless instead of twenty-one, it might have had a bigger impact but it still is an interesting piece. 3,5*
My Bloody Valentine is a very particular band for me. I need to be in the right headspace to listen but when it clicks it REALLY clicks. Not as good as the classic Loveless but a worthy follow up. 4/5
Loud effect + whispering does not equal an album I must hear before I die. PSHHHHHHHHHHHHgodthatsuckedPSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
What? And more to the point, why?
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
who sees you - awesome climax. new you - do do doo ending. in another way - chaos. nothing is - even more so.
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.
Big wall of sound. Bijna post-rock achtig. leuke plaat
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.
Got this all cued up to listen on a drive and when it starts I’m like “oh dang my cord is shredded or it’s not connected right to the car stereo.” Nope I learned that My Bloody Valentine is basically an irritating background din with grinding guitars sometimes over lyrics I can’t really hear. Nope
Nice dreamy album. Hard to pin point an exact moment it's like when you have a nap and are suprised at how much time has passed. All I know is that I'll be happy to listen again.
Oneirically unhinged! Love the otherness of this, the changes in pitch and tempo that you make you think either the music is fucked, or your head is. Pretty sure I saw them on the tour promoting this album, and I think it was maybe the single loudest gig I've ever been to - louder than any metal band I've seen. Just an ego-obliterating wash of vibration. 🤘 Fave track - "New You", but this is an album album.
My Bloody Valentine took over two decades to follow their masterpiece, 'Loveless.' It was well worth it. m b v treads familiar ground, but infuses it with a thoughtfulness and more adept touch. The electronic elements are well placed among the drones and noise, and the androgynous vocals flit in and out throughout the music. m b v may not be as groundbreaking as Loveless, but it is still incredibly beautiful and a worthy addition to the discography.
I adore this band so much you have no idea
More of the same.
Blah
This feels like back in the day when you'd pass out watching TV and wake up to static. "New song. I, IV, V, slow, four beat down strum, two measures per chord. Just needs incoherent lyrics. And for the love of the gods, doesn't your fuzz pedal go to eleven?" I've yet to hear shoegaze that I appreciate. I'm either not sufficiently self loathing or I'm taking the wrong drugs.
This album is cool, but I wish I would have heard it before Loveless, since I absolutely love that album, while this one pales in comparison a bit for me. It's still good, and goes in different directions than Loveless, it just would have been nice to hear how much I like this album if I didn't have Loveless as a standard of comparison 4/5
Terribly boring
Not for me, I respect the experimental style but some of these songs are a great reminder that—> random noises != music
Man oh man, I asked for MBV and they delivered. One of if not my favorite band ever. This album is really interesting to me, it’s for sure my least favorite of their’s, but I still overall really enjoy it. I haven’t listened to the album in a while, and I remembered that it’s a more ambient focused album, which makes it less relistenable to me. Nevertheless, the songs “Only Tomorrow”, “If I am”, and “New You” are the only songs from this album that I return to, and they’re some of my favorite songs of theirs period. The rest of the tracks fall into the very ambient realm. The thing with MBV, you gotta give them multiple listens. I HATED loveless the first couple times I listened, but overtime it became my favorite rock album. You gotta get your ears adjusted to the noise. Also you will ascend if you listen to while high. This album also has some interesting lore. It took over two decades to release, which is nuts lol. The guitarist and songwriter Kevin Shields worked on several collaborations with ambient artist Brian Eno after releasing loveless, which definitely influenced the sound of this album. I’m conclusion, this album rocs and I can’t wait for y’all to listen to more MBV
- first song feels like a song from a soundtrack of a David Lynch Film. Very ambient, very ambigious and almost dreamlike. You cant tell me that this wouldn't work in movies like mulholland drive or lost highway. -Damn even the second song is ambient af, starting to see a trend here. -So far theres so much noise in songs, lot of distortion happening here - songs are kind of forgettable, not too mention I cant understand what the singer is trying to sing. Even with songs with little noise I cant understand. I was not a fan of this album. Felt like it couldve been a soundtrack to a sci-fi or neo noir film. I like the vibes but nothing stands out to me. Just seems like a bunch of noise
Don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing that I fell asleep to this album twice while trying to listen to it. Super chill one that you can relax to and enjoy listening to the wall of sound. I saw some of the complaints about lack of vocal melodies but that’s a huge part of what makes this enjoyable for me. There’s no main line to follow so you can drift in and out of listening to any of the instruments and their specific parts cuz it’s all so heavily layered or you just let the whole wall of sound hit you. I’ve been getting more into shoegaze the past year and this is another album in that genre I’ll come back to a good bit. 👍: don’t know because none of them stick out as way more memorable than the others but again that’s part of the reason I liked it
I am not super familiar with MBV but when I think of them, I think of soft grunge which is probably not too far off. But with this project, it seemed a lot more trance and electronic. I really liked how those two sounds blend together on this record. Not a single skip for me, perfect atmosphere to chill and do some work with. I seriously kept coming back to this, officially a mbv FAN
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
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
I finally get shoegaze thanks to this album I think. At first I was pissed to get another mbv album this close to the last one but this is the one that finally made it click. I’ve always liked dream pop type stuff like the chromatics so this is just a slightly more intense version of that. I think my problem was that I didn’t listen to the first two albums very intently and just listened to the grungy guitars but the ethereal voices are what makes the whole thing for me. This album made me go back and listen to loveless again and that album definitely deserves more than what I gave it so I’m probs gonna overrate this album even though loveless deserves it more. Sometimes is probably my favorite off of that one and who sees you is my favorite off of this one. As a genre, though, I’m not sure if I’m fully down with shoegaze. Mbv obviously have it down but I haven’t heard too much that makes me love it as a genre even though the ideas behind the form is pretty interesting and compelling to me.
Struggled a bit with this to be honest. Nois is fine but I also need a bit of a groove
The long awaited third album, from admittedly one of my favourite bands, it’s disappointing to some but ultimately an excellent album on its own. MBV are one of those bands who have a singular sound. Hundreds have tried and failed to replicate their incredible style, so I for one am extremely grateful that Kevin got off his arse and blessed us with another album. The first two thirds are as good as you’d ever need them to be, and the last third is a little more experimental and maybe where some people will be lost. Overall, obviously not the best work from this band but 100% worth listening if you already enjoy their music.
Noise pop. Coñazo
I wasn't sure how much I would like this album at first but I think by the time it got to who sees you I really got into it. It's best to not think too much and just crank the volume, sit back and chill. The final song is fantastic and it gets so pleasantly loud. I listened to it a 2nd time right after. Score: 90 Art: 60
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.
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.
Not quite loveless
Really a 3.5. I enjoyed the sound of this but not enough to add anything to the regular rotation.
1/9, 11%
Big ups for den her
Album 18 of 1001 My Bloody Valentine - m v b Favorite Track : Last One (Because I knew the suffering would soon end) Rating : 1 / 5 (Rounded Up) This has got to equal the worst piece of crap ever recorded. I apologized to my brain after listening. Was listening to one song through the ear buds while eating a bowl of cereal and was fascinated by how the crunching in my ears was more impressive than the so-called "music" I was listening to. I endured it for the sake of the process. I now have an something to represent how bad a recording can be. Now, I'll listen to some Dylan and hope my ears will forgive me for what I put them through.
Spacey at times, and other times noisy. I though parts of this were good, and other parts were average.
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.
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
my bloody wastatime
I'm fine with the fact they feel the need to do this, but please can they please fuck off somewhere else to do it.
n v g
For some reason I confused this band always with punk bands from the 2000s. But, no, My Bloody Valentine does excellent shoegaze and this album shows their talent. It is atmospheric, unclear, but in a good way. It gets your juices flowing. As with most of the genre, it can be a bit repetitive so usually less would be more.
So great. What a comeback
Not my favorite. Muddy guitar that sounds a little generic dirty rock guitar. 2/5
I like me some shoegaze, but this ain't my taste...
At one point I thought I heard something interesting but it turned out it was the theme to 30 Rock that my wife was watching in the next room.
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.
Franchement c'est bien nul, que des mauvaises versions de only shallow
Goes from beautiful ("she found now") to bruising ("nothing is") and back again. Abstract enough to avoid the hard-edging annoyance of pure industrial. To be clear: this never quite soars to Loveless-level heights or achieves that ultimate impact, but is awfully good on its own terms, unique as a sculpture of distortion and reverb and fully immersive sonic art and seemingly a minor miracle for ever having been released in the first place.
Oh it's bad. It's noise. It's indie music. Don't listen.
decent but not really memorable
mid bad valentine if you ask me. Not good content from them.
Crossing one off the backlog with this listen. Very enjoyable experience, great comeback album that you can easily get lost in. Heavier and more distorted than their earlier efforts, in the best way. The song nothing is was an anomaly - I listened multiple times and just can't wrap my head around it.
I really enjoyed this album. "Soundscape album" bucket. Very high distortion, very high reverb, dreamy and dissonant.
It's not enough to be making a different sound - it's still got be pleasant, so that people will want to listen to it. This is horrible and I don't want to hear it. I think there might be some reasonable melodies in there somewhere, but it's just lost in the wall of noise. I know some people think it's great, but I'm never going to be one of them. I don't care if it's 'art' - it sounds awful, so it isn't music.
Not horrible, but pretty boring. I would put this on to do some homework or studying to.
How can 45 minutes be so unending?
Nice change of pace
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
Soundteppiche; zuerst ein fesselnder Klang; aber dann die ersten drei Lieder immer das gleiche; bin mir nicht klar, ob ich die Platte zu Ende anhöre; nächstes Lied klingt dann anders allerdings mit sehr simpler Klangteppich und Melodieführung; herausragende Musik? Na da stelle ich mir schon etwas anderes vor.
Shoe gazing is the worst genre ever. Try to picture a porn star attempting to set an anal gang bang record & try to imagine the gruel that would escape her anus near the end. If you could turn that gruel into music, it’d be this shit
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.
It was better than I thought it would be
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
Better than the other one in the list
That was boring.
Seems to be missing what made their early stuff reasonably interesting. And that was a stretch
Very chill album, like their older stuff more
Was excited when this appeared as I’ve heard lots about the band but never really listened to them. Shame, then, that this was a total nothing burger
If my CRT TV played this instead of white noise, I guess that’d be alright.
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.
Fuck this racket.
Inte lika dåligt som det förra!
Good album but I wasn’t in the mood for it today.
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
More interesting than I thought. Would listen again.
Not my thing
A boring shoegazing album a sure thing to cure insomnia.
A very uneventful and unnecessary album that was also plagued by awful (or intentially awful) mixing
What do you call this type of music where someone plays one distorted chord over and over again for six minutes?
Kinda boring and spacey.
Great comeback from MBV, with some songs reaching almost as high as some songs on Loveless, like the song "only tomorrow". Most of it is pretty typical MBV shoegaze goodness with immaculate sound and production. 7,6/10