Loveless (Album)

Labels

• Creation Records (UK)
• Sire Records (USA)

Occupation

E- Guitar, Vocals: Kevin Shields, E- Guitar, Vocals: Bilinda Butcher, Bass Guitar: Debbie Googe, Drum pattern: Colm Ó Cíosólg

Loveless is the second album by the Irish shoegazing band My Bloody Valentine.

It is a typical work of the shoegazing and meant for the band 's international breakthrough. However, after its release, the four band members away first ever further apart. Only in 2013, the band released another album.

The cover of the album shows a still image from the music video for " Soon".

Genesis

It was published on 4 November 1991 after two years of recording time. The recording of the album took place in 19 different studios and to have cost about £ 250,000, which brought the label Creation Records to the brink of ruin. Several times, the contract was almost terminated with the band. The band thanked in the booklet each helper and co-producers, even " if they have just made ​​tea " ( Kevin Shields ).

Due to a nervous breakdown the drummer Colm Ó Cíosólg could develop only the drum pattern for the album to own he was, with the exception of the first song, "Only Shallow ," unable. According to frontman Kevin Shields, the individual drum parts were simply looped, which would have been no great loss. Cíosólg also wrote the short instrumental interlude " Touched ".

According to Shields there is hardly anything worse than music with bad lyrics. You have used more time for writing the texts as dedicated to the crafting of music. Nevertheless, he admits that most of the lyrics were unintelligible on the album. That stems from the fact that the vocals were often taken late at night and the singer Bilinda Butcher would have been sleepy accordingly. Shields joked that he had taken time to consider, evaluate several attempts decrypted lyrics on the website of the band as a percentage of the correctness.

Reviews

Commercially the album was not a great success, by the critics but it has been highly praised and is considered one of the best albums of its genre, which has also inspired many other artists. So was Heather Phares of Allmusic the album a perfect score and wrote:

" " Is not Anything " was good enough to inspire to Entire scene of My Bloody Valentine soundalikes, but" Loveless " ' greatness Proved did the band what inimitable. " ( "Is not Anything" was good enough to inspire an entire scene of My Bloody Valentine - imitators, but " Loveless " ' greatness proved that the band can not be imitated. ) "

Although the English Rolling Stone gave "only" four out of five points, but later the album appeared, for example, also in the list of 500 greatest albums of all time the German Rolling Stone ranked 179. Pitchfork Media listed it got to number two of the albums of the 1990s.

Track list

All songs - unless stated otherwise - from Shields.