Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Songs Everyone Must Hear: "Only Shallow"- My Bloody Valentine



    For literally one second, "Loveless" sounds like every other bullshit rock record with the overused snare drum count-in, but once that second ends it becomes one of the most important and unique guitar albums of all time.  The opening track "Only Shallow" washes the listener in a sea of texture.  Fuzz and reverb pulsate behind a guitar line that seems to physically move.  The song is as noisy as it can get, but it still seems soft.  Delicate vocals croon and lull the listener into a false sense of security before the 2 guitars that sound like 200 guitars come back to bite you.  It's one of the most mature, most important, and most boundry-pushing records in the history of rock.

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