My Bloody Valentine – Loveless (Fully Analog Cut)

Loveless is the second and most acclaimed album by the Irish shoegaze band My Bloody Valentine, released on November 4, 1991 by Creation Records . The album was written and produced by the band’s leader and guitarist Kevin Shields, who spent nearly two years experimenting with various recording techniques, guitar effects, and tuning systems .

The album is a masterpiece of shoegaze music, as it showcases the band’s distinctive and innovative sound, which blends layers of distorted and reverberated guitars, ethereal and indistinct vocals, and dreamy and melodic pop songs . The album also features the band’s most diverse and expressive songs, such as “Only Shallow”, “When You Sleep”, “Sometimes”, and “Soon”, which were all released as singles and received positive reviews from critics .

Loveless was a commercial success, selling over 250,000 copies worldwide and reaching number 24 on the UK Albums Chart . It was also praised by critics, who hailed it as one of the best and most influential albums of the 1990s . The album has since been recognized as one of the greatest albums of all time by various publications and institutions, such as Rolling Stone magazine, which ranked it number 219 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2020 , and the Library of Congress, which selected it for inclusion in the National Recording Registry in 2018 .