My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

(Creation, 1991)

In blatant disregard of its chosen birth name, My Bloody Valentine's second full album release, Loveless, is of course anything but.

This record is, in its entirety, pure love soaked and intoxicant to the core; electric organic sonar hymns from rare touched ethereal hearts lull and weep their liquid sleep embryonic haze, bludgeoning swathes of dense hypnotic guitar omnipotence and transcendence writhe and rage their sublime warp dazed melodies, their combined swell tracing a continuous and relentless ascension to the surface of a full blood ocean and beyond, a brave Atlantis resurrection into the tranquil, cruel and frigid night, a belief only you, me and the stars could understand.

Occasionally, from somewhere inside these twisting amorphous depths, a shy lone truth bravely whispers its fragmented child memories, at once enraptured and lost, desperate and heady, longing for escape but delirious of its existing state. The overall impact and affect is so vast and overwhelming, it is both ecstatic blissful noise and soothing tender calm, a return to an unconscious past and future dreams incarnate, a rare exotic sonic creature, the sound of human love. Narcotic, scintillating and utterly essential, forcibly inhale and absorb this record while you still can - you may never feel its kind again.

Rating: (10)