Loveless

this one was a snoozefest made snoozier by the fuzzy sound engineering

yeah I see why it's called shoegaze.

Probably my favourite of the three. I've even enjoyed some songs e.g Come in alone

Have tried so many times over the years to fall in love with Loveless, but have never managed. Has so many elements that I like, without the songs to back it up. Give me Souvlaki over this any day.

no sorry

4.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/my-bloody-valentine/loveless/ Obvious shoegaze classic, inspiration for a ton of bands, and contains some of the genre’s best songs. Also, however, sometimes a little bit boring (as most shoegaze albums can get).

I found a copy of this in the $3 bin at Used Kids one day. The CD had some scratches on it and the insert was water damaged and not really salvageable. Did it play in my CD player? Yes? Okay. That's all I cared about. Just a kickass album. Probably 3 to 4 stars. But I love it too much. 5 stars.

I might have heard a song or two a few times by them but generally wasn't that familiar. But ya, I really liked it, the dissonant sounds mixed with the nice singing.

How is there such a huge difference in quality between their two albums... like the last one sounded like possessed vampires and this one sounds like every single good teenage memory rolled into one?? I didn't think I'd get the hype but I do now

6 / 10 - Muss mit gutem Sound, mit Intention und laut gehört werden, ansonsten wird es zu "background noise" - Klangfeld wichtiger als Harmonie/Melodie - Ich schätze ich muss es noch etwas öfter hören um es wirklich schätzen zu können ... Favs: - Only Shallow - I Only Said

Shoegaze is all about the hypnotic vibes. The songs just go a minute too long. However, I did like this album more than m b v (3.5).

High School me wasn’t and wouldn’t have been ready for this record. Guitars so over-processed that they barely sound like themselves; production that was over-engineered, and over budget to the point of bankrupting the label. The legend of this record has grown, and my appreciation has grown even more. It’s a hazy dream played so loudly that you can’t sleep.

#bernwoche ich verstehe die Produktionsentscheidung das eh schon flächige noch flächiger zu machen in dem alles ohne lautstärken- und frequenzausschläge einheitlich vor sich hin wubbert und leidet überhaupt nicht. Denn eigentlich mag ich ja diese Art von Gesang und Abwechslung von flächigen Gitarren und simplen Melodien. Aber auch bei den Melodien oft einfach nervige Sounds.

Das ist für mich ein ultimatives Wohlfühlalbum, eine warme Decke aus Wall of Sound. Perfektes Kopfhörer auf und Tagträumen Album. Chill Out Beats made of noise.

Es wird mir total klar, warum das Genre "Shoegazing" heißt. Was besseres als zu dieser Musik auf meine eigenen Schuhe zu starren fällt mir auch nicht ein. 6 Minuten Tracks, die nur 3 Minuten tragen. Zwischendurch starke Arrangements und Melodien, aber es ist mir zu repetitiv. Ist mir zu repetitiv. Zu repetitiv. Zu repetitiv. Zu repetitiv. Zu repetitiv. Zu repetitiv. Repetitiv....pitiv...pitiv...tiv.....

Meh.

Tja

7/10 Lots of hooks, but no songs. Highlights: Soon When You Sleep

Snap wel dat mensen dit geweldig kunnen vinden, maar shoegaze blijft toch niet mijn genre

i remember really loving this in 2020. it’s still fantastic.

interesting noises fav song: When You Sleep

Not bad! I like their heavier, gritty kind of sound and may revisit this

This was surprisingly interesting. Not something I loved, but there were some interesting sounds and nothing that annoyed me. I'd say this was somewhere between 3-4 stars, but I can't quite round up to 4. 3 stars.

Contender for the most overrated album of all time? This album gets so so much praise, one of the best albums ever blah blah blah... I'd been putting off listening to this based on the times I'd heard 'Only Shallow' on the radio or whatever, as it just sounded crap. Which as I was probably hearing it through crappy speakers, I thought I'd give it a fair chance by playing it on my proper speakers. I was hoping for a Frank Reynolds 'Oh my god... I get it' moment but it didn't arrive. Kevin Shields apparently reinvented the guitar, why should I care unless it sounds good? It's like those people who have world records like most hurdles jumped over on a pogo stick in 3 minutes while wearing a diving suit. Good for you, I guess? I thought maybe I just dislike shoegaze, dream pop/rock as a genre, but I don't think that's the case. I like Cocteau Twins, they do this sort of thing far better. Just how it's produced takes most of the blame I think. This sort of dreamy pop should sound ethereal, open, relaxing, like you're floating on air. Loveless sounds hemmed in, the constant droning causes tension in the head. It's the sort of dream you have where the alarm clock is blaring in the bedroom and your brain has mutated it into your dream in some unpleasant fashion instead of waking you up. Now I've said how much I dislike this album, I'm gonna contradict myself a bit and say it wasn't as bad as I feared! It wasn't complete torture to listen to, but certainly not one of the greatest albums ever.

Hadn't listened to this in quite a while but it's a stone cold classic, well deserving of its place on this list. Still don't know the song names or the words but the sound, texture and noise from this album are just beautiful. 5 out of 5 stars.

Sounds like the 90s, and not in a good way.

I've listened to this one a few times over the years. Dig shoegaze, dig ethereal vocals, dig the whole vibe. Definitely a masterpiece of the genre. Doing some research into how Kevin Shields got his tone and Gemini tells me that if I run my pedalboard Reverb>Big Muff>Univibe>Delay it can create distorted massive dreamy textures. Looks like my neighbors are gonna be listening to shoegaze too.

man everything here is so muddied. Distorted guitar and almost like a weird film of interference over everything. Not the absolute worst but if they cleaned up the sound a little more I think it couldve been a lot better.

Distorted guitars and that’s about it. Left very little impression on me

Fuzzy music over barely audible vocals. I get this is considered one of the best of the shoegaze genre but being the best of the worst doesn't mean it's good.

3.5, good vibes (not positive vibes but like pleasant to me)

in my mind, this was a horror movie

At times, there were sounds so bad I wanted to quit listening (around minutes 7-9 on the full album). But overall, the sounds were mostly good. Lowkey felt like a battle of the bands between good and bad sounds at times, which is cool. Also it reminds me of the public library.

Wow. The songs are sad but beautiful. I feel like I'm dreaming Favourites: when you sleep & sometimes

Guys, it's okay to tone the reverb down.

Yes, that's a for-real 5. Apparently this album is one of the site's owner's favorites, so I can maybe imagine his disappointment that this is not in the top 10, not even in the top 100 rated albums on the list. I don't really listen to this album anymore. Not that I need to—as a young guitarist in college, I was obsessed with this album, and collaborating with other hungry, young peers, we were always looking for more tone, more power, and more ways to make a statement in our sound. Kevin Shields managed to do these three things and more. His manic quest in search of tone and in engineering this album to sound the way it does is the stuff of legend, though it almost bankrupted Creation Records at the time. First things first, everything is sampled on this album: guitars, bass, drums, vocals, keyboards, noise, and God knows what else. Would have preferred a louder drum sound, but with Colm Ó Cíosóig absent, Shields had to make do. Apparently, Belinda Butcher would get woken up to do the vocal takes. The lyrics are still a mystery to this day. It takes a lot to make such an idiosyncratic sound. How many pedals? Which way were the amps facing? What key is that in, anyway? While songs like "Only Shallow" have caught up with modern psychedelic rock, I'm still waiting for the next musical movement that resembles otherworldly songs like "To Here Knows When" and "Soon". It's a unique album that's completely timeless, and I've heard nothing like it. Whenever I need some inspiration on tone and power, I always tune in. Alien music from another dimension.

I guess I like the idea of MBV better than the reality

One song was too discordant for me, but the rest of the album was solid. My highlights: Only Shallow, When You Sleep and Sometimes. I think I'd like this best as a headphone listen.

Still so unique in sound - i can’t really describe it. So just give it a listen

Liking it so far but need to hear on a speaker system, to big for headphones?

There is a great deal of experimentation on Loveless. They pioneered a new use of synths, overdrive pedals and washed out forms production to create a blanket of all encompassing sound. You can hear touches of Cocteau Twins at points, but they’ve taken elements of that sound and dialled it up the greatest possible extreme. At this time, My Bloody Valentine displayed an exceptionally rare quality - an ability to innovate and create their sound from scratch, similar to what Kraftwerk did in the 70s. I Only Said is a clear example of how My Bloody Valentine’s approach to production differs from a typical rock band. The mix of every instrument is smudged together to create this completely new sound. Only the lead synth line cuts through apart from the rest of the instrumentation. The sound, image and feel that My Bloody Valentine have crafted on this record is a clear influence on countless records, including a teenage fave of mine - The Horrors’ Primary Colours, which is still one of my favourite records. (The track names on that album even look the same!) When I was younger it was the more melodic first half which grabbed me the most, but I now find the subtler moments on the second half LP equally grab me. This is an album I’m sure I’ll return to throughout my life.

A solid 5 for me today, this record completely pulls me into its world and I love it

No dynamics. Just loud and feedback. Shoegaze emo is not my jam.

Alsof de middelste speaker van je surroundset is uitgevallen. Het is niet de bedoeling dat je de zang verstaat, gesteld dat je er geïnteresseerd in zou zijn. Liefdeloos is het, inderdaad, en vermoeiend om naar te luisteren. Het boeide de band niet of het een beetje leuk zou klinken. Zucht. Met dit derde album is in ieder geval de gifbeker van deze knurften eindelijk geleegd.

Ik heb een regel voor mijzelf. Ik luister de albums gewoon helemaal uit. Hoe belachelijk ze soms ook voorgeschoteld worden door de lijst. Maar.... Als het het derde album van een band is die al twee maal 1 ster scoorde, én dat voor de derde maal komt door een belachelijk geluid, dan maak ik na meer dan 1000 albums toch één uitzondering. Niet alleen dat. Ik heb na de paar nummers die ik nog wel kon luisteren, zelfs een paar dagen helemaal geen zin meer gehad in ook meer iets in deze lijst. Waarmee het duidelijk is dat dat My Bloody Valentine wat mij betreft een loden grammy ontvangt voor de allerslechtste band.

Verrek, dat eerste nummer ken ik gewoon. Ik was eigenlijk al voorbereid op de inmiddels 3e matige plaat van My Bloody Valentine, maar door dat eerste nummer gaat dit misschien redelijk meevallen. Hoopte ik, maar het tweede nummer is weer precies hetzelfde irritant wazige geluid met veel echo en ruis. Het zuigt heel veel energie weg. Ik krijg hier zelfs zowat hoofdpijn van. Gelukkig zit er meer samenhang in het middelste gedeelte en laten ze de vreemde vertraging weg of is die minder prominent aanwezig. Om op het eind het er weer in te pleuren. 1 album van deze figuren was wat mij betreft al meer dan genoeg. Op basis van dat beginhitje zou ik zeggen dat ze dan het beste dit album zouden hebben gekozen. Ik heb eerder een 2 en een 3 gegeven. Door het eerste gedeelte van dit album heb ik even gespeeld met een 1. Laat ik het op een 2 houden, omdat ik "only shallow" oprecht een prima nummer vind.

The inconsistencies of the fuzzy, psychedelia and dreamy feel is what makes this album great. The quintessential shoegaze sound, multilayered and heavily textured. Agglomeration of waves.

I don’t like it as much as others do but still a 3.

Ne zamee

*stops, began gazing at shoes for a whole munite* holy shit i was deciding to listen to this on its 35th anniversary near the end of the year. or on a night flight when i feel dizzy. why does it have to come under broad daylight. but still i listened with good headphones at an ungodly loud volume. and wtf this is too awesome. instant 5/5.

I was about to turn this off but the middle of the record was better than the beginning. I can hear the influence this had on some records I really love - early Smashing Pumpkins and early Sloan specifically. I like the static-y sound when there was a ‘song’ to go along with it haha the muddy static for no reason was not my fave. This is almost a 4 for me. Maybe a few more listens would get me there.

you gotta remember that these guys came about and did something that no one had even thought about before revolutionising music changing the scene forever bringing new meaning to sonic spaces lower case song titles. what u think it was that billie eilish? your precious Taylor swift?? You dumb zoomers no it was the bois & girls from Dublin & you best remember it 7 / 10 best track/s: when you sleep, soon

Only one song was listed on Spotify, but honestly didn’t try to kill myself finding the rest cause it just all sounds the same for me.

Highlights - Every song except Touched Lowlights: Touched Loved this, wish I could hear what anybody was saying tho.

otro album que suena muy igual pero no está mal, soon es mi favorita

Perfect from start to finish

This is such a perfect album. Took me a few listens, but has become one of my favourite albums of all time. Holy peak alert Just such a vibe. Listening to this album with good speakers or headphones is probably as close to heaven as we can get. Ear porn fr

Before: This is a 5. In fact most songs on the album are a 5. I have 10 of 11 tracks in my best of 1991 list which only has 84 total. so MBV comprises 12% of the list in terms of titles. In mind, this album is the definition of shoegaze. During: I've heard this so many times there's really no point in listening to it again. I absolutely would but it's not available on Spotify for a few months now and I really don't feel like trying to piece it together from YouTube clips. I do have it on vinyl down in the basement, buried in the back of a closet. OK, so I did find the full album on YouTube Music, so here goes... After : 5, no doubt. This for sure is one of my top 100 albums of all time. Maybe even top 20.

If there was one thing I learned from this list is that I can't get into noise pop or shoegaze or whatever the hell is supposed to be, and I really tried to like it.

Goddamn I wish this was on Spotify. Hard for me to keep it all straight in my head, but this was pretty damn cool. Take a 3 second snapshot from any point in the album and it sounds like messy noise, but put it all together and it seriously transports you. Shoegaze, maybe at its best. A great listen. Also, what a perfect opening to an album.

Groundbreaking shoegaze record, which means literally everything in the indie scene to come after it has been touched by it in someway. "Only Shallow" and "When You Sleep" are obvious highlights but the whole thing is just a really good album to put on and sit with.

It's nearly impossible for me to write about this record without sounding like a fanatic. There is simply no other album quite like this one, a perfect marriage of volume and delicateness, of melody and distortion, of beauty and, well honestly it's just fucking beautiful. I'm sure Bob can name 10 others just like it, but for me, in shoegaze, and frankly in 90s alternative, MBV stands head and shoulders above the pack. And this is their undisputed masterpiece

I missed this when it came out back in the day as I was in grunge mode in the early 90s. This is pretty solid. Lots of fuzz and noise but has a hint of vulnerability that makes it click. Pretty cool.

Love these distorted guitar sounds. It's what I live for. I can definitely here some Britpop-like elements in here, which I think make it worse. Drumming isn't great either. But on the whole this was good. This is a band I've been meaning to listen to for a while now, and I'm annoyed I didn't do sooner. Very atmospheric - the vocals do so much for this atmosphere building - and, again, I love a distorted guitar.

I really liked this. Solid grungy rock that just had me banging my head

I remember My Bloody Valentine from my Youth, but not ever listening to them, and as someone who has gotten into shoegaze over the past 5+ years, I’m glad this list gave me the chance to listen to this album that was very important to the genre. This was a banger!

Säröä. Melusaastetta. En keksi tilannetta jossa tämä menisi. Ehkä jonkun kidutussession taustamusana.

Huomattavasti koherentimpaa ja jalostuneempaa saundia kuin aiemmalla levyllä. Tämä oli jo kuunneltavaa, pyöritin pari kertaa läpi ja vaikkei välttämättä jäisi jatkuvaan soittolistaan, niin oli kuitenkin mielenkiintoinen levy ja paljon siistejä juttuja.

another longstanding fave of mine. (yes this review is all in lower case) the grand daddy king of album covers that look like the album sounds it's a cliche but it really can't be overstated how important it is to listen to this a bit louder than you'd probably like to as there's so much buried in the mix "only shallow" is an immediately great track from the first 4 drum hits, but the rest of the album takes a bit more time to sink its teeth in. for me "when you sleep" and "sometimes" were the next obvious "catchy" tracks. then i sort of realised one day that "to here knows when" is like being carried away on an ethereal wave "soon" starts almost like a stereotypical 90s british alt rock track that someone like stone roses might have made (suspiciously similar to fool's gold), until they switch on the hoover about 45 seconds in

Definitely sounds better with headphones on, listened in the car also and it just didnt hit the same. Not sure exactly what i was expecting with this, idk if this was it. Did really enjoy it, i think this could grow on me still also (4/5)

Not on Spotify. Going to need to come back to this one. Update after finding it on YT, how did I miss this one in the 90s? I really, really liked this.

Can’t quite get it to 3. The effects are too often ineffective. Some bits are pretty good though. 2.5

likeless

Very encompassing. Feels like getting blasted by a wall of sound. Did not finish due to overstimulation. 1/5

Unfortunately this album is not available on my chosen streaming platform, so I had to listen to a low quality Youtube rip. I think I have an idea of what it is going for but if you're mad at this review, please dont be lol. 2.5/5

Made me so excited about what a guitar and music could do.

I do like dreamy shoegaze music but I kind of need to be in the right headspace for it

If I liked shoegaze more, I'd probably like this, but it just ain't my bag.

Noise music

It was ok. I preferred their other album that came up here. I’m finding that I’m quite enjoying the drone music, providing it’s vocal-free.

Wow! Expected to hate it, but it so creative, has so cool sonic landscapes that includes both vulnerable pop melodies and arrangements and wall of noise... This is so artsy, that it changed my mind about this type of music.

Pretty great; there was one track where the dissonance wasn't agreeing with me, but overall I really enjoyed this. 4/5

Been listening to this album for over 20 years now. It's great and it introduced me to a lot of new sounds at the time. Really appreciate this one. 4.5/5

Wasn’t on Spotify so listened from YouTube. Wondered if the upload quality wasn’t great, eventually accepted no it’s supposed to sound this way. So much going in that for me it turns into too much. Makes it hard to appreciate each thing. Atmospheric for 5 minutes or so, but eventually felt trapped in an endless loop. Don’t know what the point was of having different tracks, they all felt the same. I kind of get it, but…nah.

Je le vois passer dans des listes depuis des années et je ne m'étais encore jamais sérieusement penché dessus. Et maintenant que je l'ai fait, je dois dire que je suis très content de mon écoute. Je connais assez mal la shoegaze et c'est l'un des meilleurs exemples que j'ai pu entendre jusque-là. Parce que My Bloody Valentine ne se contente pas d'avoir un son assez vague et un chant peu mis en avant. En plus de ce qu'on peut attendre d'un album du genre, on a aussi un côté noise très appuyé qui rend l'album particulièrement onirique et rend la musique d'autant plus distante, souvent cachée par la couche d'effets sonores (entièrement faits à la guitare noyée dans des effets, si j'ai bien compris). Rien à dire, c'était vraiment très cool.

Dense, overdriven guitar layers built from swirling distortion, buried melodies, soft but submerged vocals, and endlessly droning textures move this shoegaze album like standing directly beneath a jet engine painted in pastel colors—hypnotic in theory, but in practice so loud and saturated with noise that it strains the ears and blurs everything into a relentless wash.

Not my favorite kind

Lovely dreamy shoegaze

A pinnacle of shoegaze and essential album in alt-rock history. Shields is up there with the best of them in terms of innovative use of guitar. He can make a guitar sound so un-guitarlike, creating woozy textures and beautiful melodies of unfamiliar sounds. I don’t even care what the lyrics are (and don’t know despite years of listening) - the music does it all for me on this one.

I appreciate what they've done but this just isn't for me. Also, it wasn't a Spotify.

I got to see, in real time, the cultural shift which made Loveless (and shoegaze at large) go from music for only the most far gone of Pitchfork readers to the soundtrack of Gen Z music nerds' specific type of ennui. And honestly, it kind of makes sense. This album has a really particular emotional palette. The guitars straddle the line between euphoric and crushing, the melodies are pleasant, and almost hopeful, but the vocals are small and despondent. The result is an album that makes you feel like you're in a dream, having an overwhelming sensory experience. And I can see how people connect so closely to it, especially considering that these songs are ultimately pretty approachable pop on a structural level. But I don't quite connect as closely here as the true believers. And it ultimately comes down to the writing I think. I don't think that, on a writing level, any of these songs are really fantastic (with the exception of When You Sleep, which is very well written). But ultimately this is an "aesthetics" album, so I can let it get away with some of this. But where I think Loveless succeeds most is in it's guitar playing. Loveless' guitar tone and playing style is kind of a generational accomplishment in guitar music. Kevin Shields did basically reinvent the guitar on Loveless, and I don't think anyone has really replicated it. The playing is so textural and so deeply abstract that the melodies sound like they were carved out of a wall of sound, rather than played. Although, there are still melodies that kind of emerge; it's abstract, but not formless. And I think it really is ingenious, and unique. Even if I don't think this is really a perfect album, I do really appreciate the soundscapes here and admire the construction. I just can't quite connect on as deep a level as some people, mostly due to the songwriting. That being said, I am also the kind of person more built for My Bloody Valentine's live show than their albums. I want my noisy music to really hurt. So basically, I'm not ruling out the possibility of this becoming a 5 if I'm ever able to hear it at irresponsibly, *truly* dangerously high volumes.

A big nope on this one. Just not enjoyable to listen to.

soothing drony noise pop. for me, that train has long since departed. if i long for sth in that direction, my favourite drug still is Nine Inch Nails.

of course

Shoegaze classic and foundational. How can you go wrong?

Maybe I was in the right mood to listen to shoegaze ... I actually enjoyed it. "Loveless" just might be the best album in that particular sub-genre.

Can appreciate the influence and originality but MBV aren't one I've felt compelled to return to over the years. Still good stuff.

i loved the whole tone we stay in. feels like im in the band and we're on a rollercoaster

It appears that this album has been removed from all streaming sites. I got lucky and found it on YouTube. I wonder why it was removed? In any case, I was not a fan of this. Very psychedelic and hallucinating sounding. The weird whispering and altered voice at the beginning really put me off.

I didn’t know this anlbum—and I should’ve. Moody, full of wonderful(!) distortion. I’ll come back to this.

Going to rate it higher than I thought I would. Far better than the last album on this list I listened to. Some good riffs and life to it

I would like to like this more. And it has its place. But I heard it about 15 years ago and I hardly ever choose to put it on.

Belanglos

Not my genre at all, potentially good music but spoilt by the production

90s indie rock. Shoegaze with floaty, hard guitars. Dreamy grunge rock. Experimental and chaotic after first track.

wenig hörbar.

Shoegaze, jetzt weiss ich woher gewisse Bands diesen Stil haben. Faszinierend aber schwer erträglich.

Meh.

Oh yeah

Love this. So much grunge & ambience, creating the warmest & heaviest of soundscapes. For some reason I always used to think that my bloody valentine were a screamo heavy metal band, but how wrong was I? I’ll definitely be coming back to this album as I’m sure there is so much more to pick out from it after first listen. If there’s one criticism, I’d argue it’s slightly too long and some songs do blend into one another, but it’s only minor criticism. 9/10.

Very different soundscape with distortion and synth, good find from the list. only complaint: not on spotify or apple music. Favorite track: only shallow other picks: i only said, when you sleep, soon

Oh I love this NOISE. Right up alley. I wanna be in a really hipster basement in college with a lukewarm PBR

rock experimental, voces tranquilas, guitarras distorsionadas, un poco psicodélico, 3/5

Sounded like just nose but hard to find online. Listened to album as one track on YT music.

Couldn’t find this ?

never could listen on spotify

Hm, this album isn't on Spotify. I'll check some out on YouTube. I really like this album! I thought My Bloody Valentine was like screamo. This is really good. I like the early 90s vibe. Can't quite put my finger on who it reminds me of. 5 stars!

Mmm…

If Loveless before, there's certainly none coming from my direction

Listened to a couple of tracks but not motivated to continue

Cool album. Standout songs: only shallow when you sleep what you want

This website sure loves noodley records.

Worth a re-visit.

I wanted to love this, I really did. A few standouts early on - only tomorrow, who sees you, and is this and yes - but in the end too much distortion and too many repetitive sections. It becomes tedious and annoying…how are you supposed to listen to this with others in the car. I stick with Beach House for my dreamy atmospheric shoegaze. A 4 for the 3 songs mentioned; 2 for the rest. 3/5

sobe o tom de voz, pelo amor de deus pressão baixíssima e ainda palhaçada de música em lowercase

One of the most revolutional albums of all time! Not my type of music but i get it!

47. avg mbv

This and Can's Tago Mago are the best two albums on this list.

I really enjoyed this.

This was cool n I didn’t know the band and had to find this album on YouTube but was very worth it for real 90s grunge sound

I want to start a garage band.

Sick

I was told, "It sounds like the cover looks" and it's true. The first thing you notice are the washes and waved of noise that seem to cover everything. But underneath those clouds of sound is a solid sense of melody supported by some great harmony choices. The vocals are set way back in the mix but since the lyrics seem unimportant anyway, seemingly being there to add to the texture, this doesn't matter. Comparison with Sonic Youth or Jesus and Mary Chain or even White Light/White Heat era Velvet Underground seems appropriate, but this is something lusher and richer. Call it shoegaze if you want, but what wonderful shoes.

Tedious. As. Fuck. This list is missing too much great non-anglophone music for their to be two albums by these wankers.

Another unique experience for me. I like how layered and textured each track feels like.

Lots of distortion, wall to wall guitars, no time to breathe. While I appreciate the experimentation and forward thinking nature of the album, I was slightly overwhelmed at all times while listening to this. Perhaps it just needs a re-listen to appreciate fully. 6.5/10

A ghost recorded this album. I didn't understand anything.

??? ok indie noise pop spiritueller vorgänger von radiohead und smashing pumpkins und die gitarrengewitter sind fett ->yt-hit only shallow. c

I can see how other bands have been influenced by this album, and refined this sound into something more appetising for the wider population. Shoegaze isn’t really my thing, but I can appreciate the art of this album

“Wall of sound” is an expression that is often thrown around to describe particular production techniques, but I think that it genuinely fits here. In this case the band played the guitar parts on vintage equipment, sampled the output and layered it multiple times to create an effect of a huge soundscape. At points the sound becomes almost abstract and looped, reminding me in places of experimental pieces by Steve Reich and other avant garde musicians. It’s been described as shoegaze but it’s a little bit too discordant to be comfortable listening for me. I think it would depend heavily on the right atmosphere and volume to work properly.

Overall: 8/10 Truly the dreamiest music you'll ever hear in your life. The obnoxiously distorted guitars and whispery vocals feel very ethereal and claustrophobic (that's a good thing for this type of music). I've always loved the song Only Shallow but all of my attempts to listen to this album in the past left me feeling melancholic so I avoided it for a very long time. I still feel the melancholy when I listen to it, but I think that's kind of the point. I'm not going to have this one on constant repeat but I appreciate it for what it is and I can see why others agree that it's special. Fav Song: Only Shallow

Didn’t find this very exciting or interesting

That's pretty awful

Unique - enjoyable sound

banger

More bog standard 1990s fare that is the hallmark of this list. This one is really quite dull.

Enjoyed the opening and closing tracks and Blown a Wish. Quite dreamy and hypnotic backing but wish I could hear the vocals more. Songs with no verse chorus format get a bit tedious when you can’t really hear what else is going on. Had to skip half way through some songs as it felt like 30 seconds was enough. 3

Hard to rind a copy

Noisy, psychedelic and grungy with a very lo-fi sound, but it's a great sound. The vocals are minimal, but they add a nice flair to the instrumentation. It's calming and edgy, with a really gritty feel. I like this one a lot.

Exceptional

Very much noise experience

Sometimes I feel like I like this album. I feel like I'd need no distractions, a dark room and some high quality headphones to get the absolute most out of it. When I don't have this, which is 99% of my music listening opportunities, i don't get the effect and it just sounds distant, mixed up and a drone. Will endeavour to find that dark room one day.

Legendary. Just not for me.

Sub genre of shoegaze rock that I did not know existed! Would revisit again

A few great songs

Second time I've actually listened to this. Pretty much the same thoughts I had from the first time. I don't understand the "Classic" shouts this get, but it is a very solid album with a unique sound.

Ik voel me weer even helemaal m’n pretentieuze zeventienjarige zelf. Het doet me toch altijd denken aan een Wong kar-wai film. Ja iconisch geluid wel! Meer niet echt te zeggen.

Noise isn't really my genre, but I have a certain appreciation for what this album does. It actually felt really coherent, which impressed me. At the same time, I just wasn't that engaged half the time? Solid, but not to my tastes!

goed naar m'n schoenen gekeken hiervoor. ik weet niet of ze de 2,5 ton productie helemaal eruit hebben gehaald, muzikaal gezien, maar het is een erg lekker album

Lowkey hazy.

Slightly overrated shoegaze classic. It gets a bit monotonous over time.

It was ok

Could not finish

its not on spotify

this is like if a college student started a band and played in a garage. I would probably vibe with it if it was live and i was tipsy, but it wasn't and i usually am not, so its a no for me.

This album was a pivotal moment in recognising my tastes were changing.

#230/1001. My son is in to shoegaze music now. As this was on the list I played it to him in the car, asking what does he think. His answer repeats the list: I don't know, it sounds quite meh. As for me, I remember browsing LPs in so many record stores 30 or so years ago, and bumping in to this cover many many times, imagining what the band would sound like. Ok, now it was on the list and it sounds exactly as I thought it would. So I don't regret not buying it, although I'm sure the album would have meant a lot more to me.

Shoegaze muy bueno, la verdad me encantó este album

SHOEGAZE!!! So in love with the album. Heard it’s an inspiration to later shoegaze artists and rightfully so it was amazing.

3.18/5 Stars Top Songs: soon, only shallow, when you sleep

Début d'année costaud.

Quelle drôle de bébitte! J'avoue avoir abandonné la première fois hier en l'écoutant, puis fidèle à moi-même ce matin à 5h30 j'ai décidé de lire sur le lore de l'album. Et après, fidèle à moi-même encore une fois, je me suis dit que je pouvais pas laisser passer ça sans encore essayer d'aimer. 10 ans avant yankee hotel foxtrot, ça me fait penser aux genres d'expérimentations studio et guitaristiques sur cet autre album. Et bien sûr les wikipedia évoquent pet sounds et dark side of the moon, ce qui est pas du tout à côté de la track non plus. Il y a des lignes mélodiques une fois de temps en temps quand même ce qui aide, la première toune est assez catchy.

Mets le son à 11! Faut se noyer dans le son pour avoir tout l’effet

Shoegaze bliss! This album sounds incredible. You can also really hear the influence this had on Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream. I think SD had better songs over all, but this is just such a cool album.

Amazing album, shame it’s so hard to listen to right now. I certainly don’t begrudge any musicians for taking their work off streaming in this day and age, but this is SO good and SO important I do wish there was an easier way to access it for everyone. I even went to a record store yesterday to see if I could find it on vinyl!!! It’s worth having in physical form.

It’s something special when a band can be this locked in. This was a real pleasure to listen to, and I can see why it was such a big deal when MBV made new music for the first time in a million years.

Sad I had to listen via YouTube.

79/1001 First listen. Apt album cover. A narrow field of colour from a broader spectrum. It looks like it sounds. I’m sure I only know of this band from their merch at Hot topic. I’ve never come across shoegaze music in the wild before. Not the sort of stuff you hear through the regular channels. I could probably get into this if I spent enough time with it. There’s nothing going on here making me want to do that though. 3/10

I didn't like it one bit. It sounds mainly like noise, with occasional melody bits. May have have been something new in 91 but new is not automatically good.

To me this is just bad, like their other two albums. 1 star or F.

Suicidal

i knew their hit song and it was cool to explore more for their music

Favourites: 1. Only Shallow 2. Sometimes 3. When You Sleep Least Favourite: Touched

++: only shallow, loomer, to here knows when, i only said, come in alone, sometimes, blown a wish, soon +: touched, when you sleep, what you want 9,6/10

Not a big fan of this one, some of the instrumentation is interesting but the vocals don’t seem to fit. Other songs are just noise.

This album has a lot of interesting, compelling musicality to it and I can hear how it influenced a lot of records I enjoy, so I probably would have given it a four if I could make out what’s going on half the time. I get that the blurry, washed-out mixing is a stylistic choice, but that doesn’t mean I have to like it. Highlights: Only Shallow, Loomer, When You Sleep, Come In Alone, Soon

eh

4/10

Beautiful and other worldly. there’s not much else to say, every one should listen to this album

Not what I was expecting. This steadily grew on me on first listen and I have returned to it a couple of times since then to explore in greater depth. A nice discovery.

Very cool dreamy shoegazey sound. Borders on being a little too noisy for my tastes though and I don't love how the vocals get drowned out

didnt really like it. It sounded as if it was being played on an old 1960's record player, too much treble not enough bass. It was a racket.

I dunno. It was alright but weird.

Really 3.5 stars, just not quite there for 4. But a great intersection of pop, noise, end arrangements

Guys! Look at my shoes! My shoes are amazing!

This an album I have tried to listen to before without success. A lot of noise and distortion, and I love shoegaze and dream pop music so this should be my type of album. It's just a bit too hard rock for me where I prefer a softer sound. That being said, I overall enjoyed the album on this listen more than I expected and certain songs really stood out that I would love to listen to again. I do see why this album has so much hype. Top Songs: When You Sleep, Sometimes, What You Want

Very eerie feeling. Klausos 4. Dziesmu šobrīd un būtu kā ārā no šausmenes 😬 Salauzts radio atp...lol. Okay, jā, man jau bail. Nesaprotu the glaze for this. Pēdējas kādas 4 dzieamas palika jau labāk, bet, godīgi, man slikti palika nedaudz. 🫡

One contiuess drone after another

Ett soniskt mästerverk! Plattan som höll på att ruinera Creation records, om det inte vore för samtida Screamdelicas oväntade kommersiella succé hade bolaget gått under med det här albumet. Men med facit i hand var det värt varenda pund och studiotimme. Ingenting har nånsin låtit såhär varken förr eller senare, fullständigt unikt. Det låter som framtiden på en annan planet. Det är oväsen men samtidigt oerhört vackert och känsligt och aldrig nånsin hårt. Mängder av band har försökt efterlikna det här men egentligen aldrig varit i närheten. Det är popmusik som konst, som idé. Kevin Shields behärskar och utnyttjar varenda möjlighet och omöjlighet i studion till perfektion. "En melodi kan beröra dig känslomässigt, en ljudfrekvens kan skaka om dig rent fysiskt... På Loveless experimenterar My Bloody Valentine mer framgångsrikt med extrema ljudfrekvenser än vad någon annan modern vit artist har gjort"[Pop #10] Sången som ett ordlöst instrument, Cocteau Twins försökte nåt liknande men MBV drar det längre, skillnaden mellan vad som är gitarrer och sång är obefintlig. Lager av loopade gitarrer blir som att vrida på en kran av ljud som är så kompakt att det blir till närmast ett brus där melodin finns inbakad. Det spelar egentligen ingen roll vilka låtarna det är men måste jag välja nån så väljer jag den söndertrasade "Sometimes" som är nåt av det vackraste jag hört vad det kommer till gitarrmusik. Loveless är ett oumbärligt mästerligt konstverk, en helt ny idé av hur popmusik kan låta. Gradvall kallade det ambient punk

Gott mangel. När melodier kan anas i larmet blir det rätt bra, som i inledande Only shallow, When you sleep och What you want. Men det sker för sällan.

Tror jag hade gillat det här på 90-talet (troligen upptäckt några år sent). MBV är ett band jag flera gånger tänkt lyssna på utan att det blivit av. Nu har jag det. Den spontana reaktion blir, ”jaha”. Varken mer eller mindre. Rimligen har man blivit mer kräsen med åren. Det här maler på utan att någonting händer. Shoegaze må ha varit det coolaste i världen 1991 men 34 år senare inser man att det knappast åldrats med värdighet. Vissa melodier är småtrevlig, likväl inget som läggs på minnet. Texterna då? Ingen aning helt omöjligt att ens gissa språket. Svag svag tvåa.

Ett album som kräver uppmärksamhet. Enkelt att glömma bort om man har det på i bakgrunden. Det är väl i och för sig definitionen av ambient. För det är om man betraktar albumet som ett ambient verk som det blir intressant. Den märkliga produkten där den distade gitarren ligger längs fram och maler nästan som vitt brus, sången som det inte går att uppfatta ett enda ord av och trummor och bas som är nästan helt undangömda. När det bara pågår är det som bäst. När de mer renodlade poplåtarna tittar fram som i avslutningsspåret blir mindre spännande.

its difficult to tell what exactly this album was a gateway To in my personal music journey...im not even sure it was the most experimental record i had yet heard, if i hadnt gotten into trout mask replica yet i was merely months away, as i devoured this whole new world of the Online Music Nerd Canon with as much mental flexibility as i could squeeze out of my teenage self. but nevertheless, if the most important album of my life is revolver, loveless doesn't trail that far behind. and it feels like a nice little duality...revolver set my tempo for a love of eclectic projects where the connective tissue is felt mostly subconsciously because the material is so disparate on a surface level, but loveless is just one giant slab of Exactly What It Is. very few records i had heard to that point took the raw pleasures of Timbre and the more articulate pleasures of Composition to such burning extremes...in fact, i think the personal revelation might well have been that timbre can BE composition, all on its own, pre-emptively opening me up to everything from early animal collective to merzbow. i havent heard this in years, and tbh it will prob be a while before i listen again cuz i already got every second of the thing memorized, but its good for any occasion and fills me with a sense of thankfulness and admiration towards the limitless boundaries of art still.

I'm a fan of distortion. Hendrix, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Husker Du and Sonic Youth in moderation. This seems to be an album dedicated to it and was a barrier between me and the lyrics. There were a couple tracks I was on the verge of enjoying, but most set my teeth on edge.

sounds like the intro of an edgy 90s film

Not on Apple Music so rating from memory.

Also zuerst dachte ich, mein Kopfhörer ist kaputt...

I enjoyed this more than m b v although I needed to listen to it on my speakers. On my earpods, the vocals were so low in the mix that they were barely audible even after fiddling with the settings. It's a bit of a cross between the Cocteau Twins and Sonic Youth, without really hitting the heights of either. Good, but not great.

Genre: Shoegaze This album is sort of the white whale for me. I had abstained from listening to this for a long time, for fear that I may not think it's one of the greatest of all time, and that I may not fall in line with the rest of the music sheeple. The harsh reality is that I "liked" this record. Not a lot, and not loved. I liked it. It's odd, I think the mystique of the band and how they sort of disappeared after releasing this, and that this was a big step forward for this particular sound (that lots of people really seem to enjoy) plays a bigger part in this being such an internet darling. But, personally, I found it to be good. Loud, sometimes to its detriment, but pretty, effective sort of soft-grunge pop rock. It's fine. I was expected to be blown away, and was not, unfortunately. 3/5

The sound of this album gives me a euphoric tingle down my spine and taps into a nostalgic feeling in me I can’t explain.

Я слышал его больше раз, чем, наверное, любой из альбомов в этом списке, и тем не менее я до сих пор не уверен, что это Величайший альбом в истории музыки. Это точно Великий альбом, и определенно единственный в своем роде. Лучшая песня - Sometimes.

I didn’t get along with “Isn’t Anything”, it just passed me by. When this popped up, I wasn’t expecting much, and the vocals, particularly at the start of the album didn’t do much to convince me but the album grew on me, the fuzzy dreamy soundscapes almost entrance you as you listen. At times it reminds me of Smashing Pumpkins, perhaps not quite as heavy or pointed though. Further listens would probably hook me in further so maybe I could come to appreciate them after all, even if their name makes me think of them as a ‘00s emo band.

I have gone my whole life thinking this band was from the 00s emo wave. This is more interesting than that.

Redefinição de ruído e barulho a serviço do pop. Não curti a mixagem e tudo o mais. CHT. 2 a 3 estrelas

Unfortunately, a little too much experimental post-rock-y, shoegaze noise for my taste.

Talentless, more like. Eh, when it's good its real good. But it's mostly droning nonsense.

To quote from my review of the last my bloody valentine albums unnecessarily on this list: my bloody ears. 1/5

I've tried so may times over the years to like this album, but I must be the only shoegazer who doesn't like MBV! Only Shallow and Soon are brilliant but the rest is just noise and as much as I like a bit of fuzz, there is a lack of any kind of melody.

Yep.

I can see how many British and Irish bands were inspired after listening to this album. The opening track is easily the best: volcanic, tender, and yet, piercing. It's a strange song but a fantastic blend of noise and silence. That song alone gives this album an instant 2.

Some great tracks

Okay, I think. I imagine I could get into this.

This album is perfect.

Might need to revisit. Saved a song: N RYM: Y (#10)

The songs are a wall of layered guitars with droning effects that proceed at a very slow pace. I can see what they're trying to do but it's a challenging listen and my first impression is that it's not enjoyable to listen to. Maybe with a few more listens it might click.

Sounded a lot like the other one

Not for me

Stunning landscape of music.

Strrrrrraight to the top. God damn this album is so fucking perfect. I hadn’t heard it in years and it hit so much for me as an older person. Texturally it is stunning and the songs are so good. The melodies are super subtle but so effective.

Good!

Not available streaming

aight now listening -22.03

I honestly blew them off but I kind of love this album. Listened to it twice in one day. Might be a new favorite.

I'm going to keep my personal thoughts about this album offline. But it's good.

THE Shoegaze album

Very cool album that has grown on me over the years. Always thought the drums sound terrible though haha

White whale time. This is a particularly difficult album to not be on Spotify (just got removed a month or two ago of course) and listening to it while cleaning my kitchen on a 10 year old Alexa speaker probably wasn't optimal. I'm impressed, very singular sounding, enjoyed getting lost in the noisy guitar and hazy vocals. Looking forward to revisiting on streaming with a pair of headphones in. Holy shit To Here Knows When is incredible.

In smaller doses this would be a fun listen. It gets old quick in album form.

i was not on board off the bat but i got there. could verge on a low 4 but i think i’ll stick with a high 3 since it kind of fell to background noise for good bits of it

Didn't finish it, mostly because it is kind of tough to access.

Music to question whether your hearing or equipment, or both are well, totally fucked. I know everything is thought out and meant, I know under all the distorted sludge, sorry production choices there are what are notes, chords and all that stuff that are songs, and this is a guess, the vocals are in a language that people can communicate in. Communicate being a 2 way process of not only giving out but being able to receive the sodding message. Some find it dreamy, I'm heading for a migrane. Not into shoegazing. Not for me, and let's leave it there. 1 Star

Jeeze that was good. First 5 I've given to an album that I knew absolutely nothing about.

I think I have a bit too much of a headache to fully enjoy it… tbc on relisten

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Enjoyable

Nostalgic soundscapes. Some of the tracks sound like they’re being played from a cassette tape. “Only shallow” was the only track I think I’ve heard before.

Not for me. Too much witchy-90s vibes. Favorite Song(s): Honey Power

I think this is the best one of theirs yet. The first track is really bold and in your face out of the gate, and shows some of the promise found elsewhere on the album. However it does also segue into that typical downbeat, out of tune, droney wall of noise which I struggle with. Parts of this album are like a bad fever dream, and it's not a pleasant listen. When the songs get a bit more structure to them, with either a good hook or a more discernible rhythm, and it's not hidden behind a complete wall of fuzz, then it's much more listenable. 2.5 rounded up.

The birth of this record was difficult, to put it mildly, partly because of the character of Kevin Shields, who is either a once-in-a-generation creative genius or a self-indulgent divo, depending who you ask. I don’t think this album is anywhere near as groundbreaking as its hagiographers claim. The guitar had been used as an ambient noise creator for years before this record came out. The lit critic Clive James, a master of the polite insult said of abstraction in poetry that it ’…widens the scope within which incompetence can fail to declare itself.’ The same is true of abstraction in music. One person’s creative chaos is another person’s self-indulgent mess. I’m in the second camp.

This album is THE shoegaze album, but I kind of just don't get it. Perhaps it will grow on me one day.

I think this album has potential, but the distortion is too thick for me. The best song was "what you want"

LMAO.

Not necessarily my cup of tea. But I can appreciate this, and I support anyone who promotes guitar pedals.

4 stars due to hipster nostalgia

Very different !

I absolutely love this album. It is beautiful, heavy, noisy, melodic, the vocals, the guitars, the songs, the whole album is amazing start to finish. To me, this is a "perfect" album - for what it was trying to accomplish and what it did for music as a medium, influencing whole genres, and all those that connect with it.

It wasn't bad, but it did all run together at a point. It is very much the classic shoegaze sound.

i used to be crazy about this band. My 20s revolved around them.

Not too bad!

Not bad. Not good either.

Superb

Lovely

Is it normal that my speakers are crackling while listening to this album?

Otherworldly, hazy and ethereal (but so catchy) sound that only My Bloody Valentine can do. So unique, a game changer.

Spielen auf Primavera Sound 2026 ❤️

Still totally fresh, a massive aural trip, love it

Omg no

Decent.

Thick woozy haze and rippling thick textures. I love this record: it's its own little universe that washes over, through, and beneath your whole body and whole brain.

Some of it is just sonically past my limits, but other parts are more enjoyable. I definitely hear the influence they’ve had, with the combination of gauze and something more percussive and hard-driving, all the way to the likes of Billie Eilish.

I've always like but never quite loved this album and still don't fully get the hype. It's an experiment in distortion and dissonance and layering, of lettting waves and waves and waves build up and crash around and seeing what difference patterns, warbles, echoes, shimmers, tremors and modulations emerge - it ends up as an impossibly thick fog of fuzz barely illuminated by the ethereal vocals that shine over the top, brightening the mist without clearing it away. It's at its best when it lets an actually melody emerge from the mire and introduce more dynamics to the shifting field. Favorite: When You Sleep, what you want, only shallow, soon

This one was disappointing. I’ve heard so much about this album and how I’m going to love it. It was fine, nothing stood out. I am going to listen to it many more times because I want to understand why others like it so much!

Not a fan of this style of music with guitar overdrive and vocal mumbling.

I understand the guitar skill but come on we are all not Eddie Vedder or need to pretend to be him

I saw this was supposed to be the progenitor of shoe gaze and I was dreading having to slog through another 45 minutes of boring, someone-please-kill-me-so-I-feel-something "music". Boy was I wrong. This is probably a solid 4 based solely on my enjoyment of it. However, it's getting a bump to a 5 cause of the inventiveness and uniqueness of it. The layers, the effects, I had no idea one could make a guitar sound so all over the place. This was incredible. The overdrive, reverb, delay, it all works together so, so well. I was never bored once listening to this. Really wish this was on Apple Music, but corporate greed what can you do. Anyways, why doesn't modern shoegaze sound like this? Also they're Irish so bonus cool points there.

overall this was better than I expected. was good background music while doing other things. especially since the lyrics are indecipherable. does get a bit repetitive/monotonous.

If this project has taught me anything, it’s that shoegaze is not for me. I don’t hear groundbreaking; I hear messy and lazy. What really shocks me is how much time and money went into making it. You’re telling me this took years and a fortune? I could’ve made most of this album in my basement with a cassette recorder and a handful of faulty pedals. Revered or not, this is a big swing and a miss for my ears.

This thinks it’s SO cool.

Sounds exactly like the cover, the quintessential shoegaze album

Innovating noise and effects in rock music, MBV knows how to walk the delicate line of experimenting while keeping the music enjoyable, a masterpiece for sure

Super Dope

Pre listen: An odd but fitting one to start off with. I’ve already listened to most of it but never actually finished it so it’s probably about time. There was a point when I was 15 that I thought ‘To Here Knows When’ was one of the best songs ever created. I used to listen to it and cry😂😂😭💀 ‘Only Shallow’ is probably my favourite I fucking love that song. We’re going to see just how many of my favourite tracks are the first one😁 ‘Loomer’ is pretty good too but I start to get bored with ‘When you Sleep’ which is hilarious because I always hear people talking about how this is the best track. The next two tracks are also pretty uneventful to me and that’s why I think I never made it all the way through. Maybe I just don’t get it? I mean I feel like I do considering I’ve loved two of the tracks but idk. I’m about to listen now, I’m in my room and I’m not high, I smoked two hours ago. Nov 6, 2025 Post Listen: so I finished listening to Loveless, kinda… ngl I was pretty much falling asleep by the last three tracks, not necessarily because it was boring or anything but ig I’m so overstimulated with technology and work that I don’t realize how tired I am until I close my eyes for a minute. I wasn’t expecting to shed tears while listening to ‘To Here Knows When’ and the even bigger surprise was how much I liked ‘When You Sleep’, it was probably my favourite track. The first side I like wayyy more than the second but I still need to listen to side 2 again before I can really say I’ve listened to it. Side one is great tho, I didn’t appreciate ‘I Only Said’ nearly as much as the rest but other than that it felt pretty much like a perfect side for what it was. Before I rate this I wanna listen to side 2 once more. Okay I listened to side 2 again so I’m ready to rate the album. My overall thoughts were that I liked it although in my personal opinion I didn’t think the album had the song writing to totally justify the hype, the sounds were cool but listening to it sober maybe wasn’t the best move. It’s weird because even though I feel like this album is best suited for intoxication I don’t feel like it’s what I’d want to put on while in that state. Not trying to hate too much it’s a great album but I just don’t think it’s one of my favourites on ‘first’ listen. All time great album cover tho. Favourites: Only Shallow, When I Sleep, Come in Alone, To Here Knows When Personal Rating: 7/10 (first time rating an album so I don’t really know if this will stick)

Not my cup of tea.

What.. is this. The same song/lyrics/white noise on repeat, interrupted periodically by youtube adverts. OK that last bit is not their fault. I found the whole thing incoherent, but I guess that's what they were going for.

Mix is a bit shit

Shoegaze at its best. Loved this.

Dreamy but steamy,that's what i'm thinking as i'm actually hearing this album.Indie/Shoegaze is not for everybody but still there is a virtuosity through the abstract,an album that for the first time the guitar is the hero throughout.I totally understand why it's on the list.It's creative and unique,totally influencial. Hearing this out for the first time i have a ritual to break it down song by song: Only Shallow is a powerful piece with dreamy reverbed vocals and a beautiful melody.The guitars experimentation though can cost your hearing at times especially if you are hearing the whole album loud.Beautiful outro, In Loomer the heaviness of the guitars settings barely leaves you to hear the female dreamy vocals this time,but then again that's the whole point.The guitar to be the star for once even in an entire album.Iliked it a bit more towards the end. Touched is a 56 seconds exploration on the guitar vibrato. To Here Knows When has beautiful structure and heavenly female singing.Abstract and quite symponic.The guitars are not that loud here fairly as there are so much elements going on underneath.Although it's brightness you can feel constantly something dark trying to get in. In When you Sleep,loud guitars "overdrive" comes back in. It's like a blurry powerful dream.Repetition without any noticable changes though could fatigue your ears. I Only Said,here the guitars fuzz covers the male vocals,almost entirely.Feels like the darkness fight the dreaminess of the song.Again the repetition burned my ears.And i'm an experimental of any genre lover. Come In Alone lets the male vocals shine more and that's a pleasure to the ear.feels more like a song than an experiment. In Sometimes the guitar changes and progresses more and gives you a more dreamy feel than the others.One of my favourites. Blown A Wish is my top favourite.There is a whole soundscape throughout the song.The female vocals work like magic here.Coctaeau Twins vibe here. What You Want,has great vocals and probably lyrics but again the guitars want the first place in your ear,badly,and i get it. Soon is the last song and boy do i get Hacienda vibes from the beginning!Great female vocals and very interesting production. Overall is a great album that i really liked although most of the times the excessive guitar loudness,pedals usage and repetition hurt my ears. 3.5/5 but what the heck

Unavailable in Spotify.

Interesting. Decent listen and a lovely bit of 90's nostalgia.

I like shoegaze. I prefer the lush sound of Lush. There are some guitar &/or other sounds that make my ears unhappy.

This is the second album from this Irish band. The music is decent, although not memorable. This band is another one of those bands using the ‘wall of sound’ concept. There’s a bit of ethereal sound here, too. The biggest negative is that the lyrics, for the most part, are unintelligible.

Never listened to this band, which seemed like an oversight by me (90s indie/alternative? that's my wheelhouse!) until... I listened to this band. I do like the vocals, especially Butcher's, but they are totally drowned out by unpleasant guitar. Much more "noise pop" than "dream pop". If this is what shoegaze is, give me some hatglance instead!! (Maybe part of this is my crappy laptop speakers, because I really feel like I'm missing something.)

It was kind of repetitive, but I liked it. Kind of eerie and strange.

AI bot answer to my question on whats so unique about the guitar work on this album: "The guitar work on Loveless was revolutionary due to Kevin Shields' "glide guitar" technique, which involves using the tremolo bar to create a warbling, out-of-tune sound, and layering countless guitar tracks with different amps and mic setups. This resulted in a unique, thick texture that created a sense of atmosphere and sound design rather than traditional riffs, largely forgoing effects like chorus that were common in other shoegaze bands at the time." Good man Kevin. I haven't a clue what ye are saying though and and I had to skip 'to here knows when' because it hurt my head. 1 point for innovation. 1 point for deserving a place on the list. .5 points for personal enjoyment. 2.5/5. Raising to 3.

shoegaze 4/5

‘Gorgeously textured‘ says one reviewer. ‘Mishmash of blurred discordant sound’ says another.

A genre defining classic!

had to track this down at a thrift store since it wasnt on spotify and boy am i glad i did. reminded me why i love "art"

Weird but very cool. Quiet the coincidence, had this on to to-listen list for a year and accually listened to this the day before this album got on this

Pretty decent album, again sort of grungy and not my favorite style but also my first time really hearing this group in a big go.