My Bloody Valentine: Loveless - Deluxe Edition (Import) Vinyl LP
Official import pressing of MBV's Loveless! This reissue was overseen by Kevin Shields and is fully analog cut, resulting in the truest representation of the album possible. Vintage Lab review: Trends move fast, and the whole 80s revival has been waning for a while now. We here in NYC are moving forward into the 90s and beginning to revisit shoegaze music. You can go out in Williamsburg and catch a whole live bill of the stuff, but I believe in checking the originators and innovators, which is where My Bloody Valentine comes in. Back in 1991, they somehow managed to attract me at a time when it was almost impossible to get me to stray from the righteous path of hip hop, hardcore, and Slayer - succeeding where Lush, Ride, and Curve had failed. "Only Shallow" is a perfect example of their steelo. The drum rolls sound like someone is emptying a Glock, and the guitar sounds like it's wired with 220 volt cables. You could almost miss it, glance over the brilliance thinking it's just more mu