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- Summary: The long-awaited follow-up to My Bloody Valentine's 1991 classic shoegaze album Loveless was made available on its website.
- Record Label: Self-released
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Pop, Dream Pop, Noise Pop, Shoegaze
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 45 out of 46
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Mixed: 1 out of 46
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Negative: 0 out of 46
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Mar 20, 2013The perfect album, albums with no filler, albums that when over, leave you breathless and don't inspire you to want more music from the band, but make you want to listen to the album from the start, all over again; m b v is that album.
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Feb 6, 2013It sounds amazing, and represents an astounding return.
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Feb 6, 2013You get lost in it, and if you're wired a certain way that mixture of desire and confusion is easy to map on to the wider world. For 22 years, the only way to get there was through Loveless and its associated EPs; now there's another path, one many of us never expected to find.
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Feb 7, 2013While there’s nothing quite as disorienting and alien as Loveless’s dramatic opening song, Only Shallow, there’s notable evolution in both the songwriting and sound, and the overall flow of the album actually seems tighter.
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UncutMar 1, 2013Overall, then, mbv is more of a time capsule than a box of surprises, but the contents have survived in immaculate condition. [Apr 2013, p.64]
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Feb 11, 2013The album’s major problem, more than anything, is that such a flabbergastingly brilliant end stretch hints at a better record that might have been, a furiously abrasive set of drum’n’gaze (sorry) that would have completely blindsided all of us, rather than the enjoyable grab bag of dreamy old and in yer face new that we in fact get.
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Feb 6, 2013It’s a good album, but not a great one, and though the long tail of history will eventually render such a long production time moot, it’s certainly not a record justifying the ludicrous wait.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 30 out of 34
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Mixed: 2 out of 34
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Negative: 2 out of 34
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Feb 8, 2013
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Mar 25, 2013
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Dec 7, 2021
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Feb 20, 2013
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Jan 30, 2020MBV is an example how a veteran band can return its form and being relevant, beyond explore new territories such as groovy rhythm sections.
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Jan 25, 2017
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