Pitchfork may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. I'm really love with this album and I can see why My Bloody Valentine are such an influential act on several alternative and hard rock bands (they were a huge influence on The Smashing Pumpkins and Deftones). These mock ups are digital representations of what we expect the final product to look like - however they do not represent the final product. It was released on 4 November 1991 in the United Kingdom by Creation Records and in the United States by Sire Records.

my bloody valentine, the quartet of Bilinda Butcher, Kevin Shields, Deb Googe and Colm Ó Cíosóig, are widely revered as one of the most ground-breaking and influential groups of the past forty years. Having not been familiar with the band or any of its music, I was completely baffled at first listen. Domino are immensely proud to announce the signing of my bloody valentine, with new physical editions of the band’s seminal catalogue being made available.

He spent about three years recording it and has since spent the better part of five or more years preparing it for new editions, at great personal expense. Loveless is made up of all the essential songs and bits that link them together, and we discovered that it all existed essentially on tape. From there, Shields had to find a disc-cutting apparatus that didn’t have a digital process, a rarity in the current landscape. My brain was essentially still processing whatever it was getting on a pretty high level—or working overtime.

Only Shallow' is the highlight for me, but there are many good tracks to pick from here, 'When You Sleep' is another standout and one of the few other tracks that has any sort of 'conventional' song structure and even here I use the term loosely. I was listening to CDs and tapes a lot more than vinyl at that time, so this release was usually enjoyed once I recorded to cassette.The album was recorded between February 1989 and September 1991, with vocalist and guitarist Kevin Shields leading sessions and experimenting with guitar vibrato techniques, tuning systems, samplers, and meticulous production methods. He speaks of it in almost mystical terms, the way a certain kind of circuitry can alter the texture in tiny ways that, he feels, can have an overwhelming impact.

We’re going to play live again, so that’s always a really good way to guarantee that we’ll get the record done. Shields and the band moved further towards a music of pure sensation, creating textures and tones that could be felt as much as heard; with ‘loveless’ the band created an album that overwhelmed the senses.

But from the perspective of listening to it, I didn’t want that to be the only version that people had access to, because it just breaks it up. Those transitions were created at least in part using computers, so to re-create them using purely analog technology meant going back to the original tapes and reconstructing them by hand using tape splices. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Keeping you in the loop with what is happening in our world - records from Domino Mart, news, discounts and exclusives.

The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. In his world, every piece of equipment has a role to play in the final product of a piece of recorded music, and each changes the final product in a way that can be expressed emotionally.To do a version of Loveless entirely in the analog domain is a tricky thing, because back in 1991, when the record was mastered for CD, LP, and cassette, digital methods were used in its final editing and mastering stages. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.