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Review - My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
by Irish Society
Straddling the realms of both accessible commercial music and more profound musical art, Loveless is a real pop oddity. This album is the wistful melodic delicacy of Brian Eno combined with the grungey aesthetics of early nineties indie rock filtered through the noise-collage composition of industrial. Instantly one is struck by the contrast of elements on display. At once this is bouncy and memorable with discernible 4/4 hooks and cyclical pop song structures yet at the same time shows a command of mood and dynamic unusual for mainstream music.
This is accomplished, in part, by an explorational creativity in guitar playing that hearkens back, in spirit, to the early days of both punk hardcore and synthesizer ambient. Guitarist Shields exploits the versatility of his instrument when used in conjunction with various effects to create layer upon layer of distorted droning textures that swirl in and out of consonance forming luscious swathes of harmony. Though the drums usually find themselves resigned to only a basic and constant pattern, the rhythmic framing of these pieces is still unquestionably pop. Arguably this stifles the ambitions of this music to wander and explore, though this in itself is not particularly negative as the work is prevented from ever meandering beyond what is intelligible. Also, through the contrary rhythmic strides of the percussion the wandering senses are compelled earth-wards and to process the experience into understandable, almost tangible symbolism (see Burzum's 'Filosofem' album for a similar effect). Vocals are a mere ghostly whisper, largely indiscernible, floating atop the waves of harmonised noise functioning siren-like as a gentle lull into the mood setting of the other instruments.
It is this essential concotion of pop's immanence and ambient's elusive sonority that produces the unusual and compelling compositional logic of this work and makes it a very definite precursor to the norwegian black metal bands. Whilst those bands did undoubtedly expand into whole new territories, much of the ideas that would later come to be associated with artists such as Ildjarn and Burzum can be found foretold here.
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My Bloody Valentine - Loveless interview
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless interview. Interview with Kevin Shields about the album 'Loveless' for Irish programme "@last tv" in November 2000.
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