Loveless

1991年発売。かのブライアン・イーノに「ポップの新しい基準を作った」と言わしめたマイブラ。80年代末から90年代初頭にかけて、UKのすべてのギター・バンドが指標としたと言っても過言ではない歴史的名盤！ノイズ・ギターによる凄まじいまでの混沌の中に、美しいハーモニーと静けさがくっきりと存在するという、独自のアートを完璧なまでに構築したロック史に輝くアルバム。

Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.50) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's." Rolling Stone (3/5/92, p.68) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...guitarists Bilinda Butcher and Kevin Shields gently breathe pretty tunes into the thick, sweet waves of droning distortion....In My Bloody Valentine's magical kingdom, cacophany is the mind-altering path to beauty..." Spin (p.110) - "This dreamy tsunami of sound blew minds, from Kurt Cobain to Radiohead to Isis." Spin (9/99, p.126) - Ranked #16 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s." Entertainment Weekly (2/21/92, p.55) - "...simply the most astounding-sounding album produced last year..." - Rating: A Q (10/01, p.49) - Ranked #39 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime" Q (12/99, p.70) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s." Q (1/92, p.71) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...the last word in noise-pop....amounts to a virtual reinvention of the guitar....The rock-is-dead argument could very well stop here..." Uncut (p.91) - "The album] holds its own as one of the great rock albums, period....Its extensive 'glide guitar' and curious lack of low end add up to a soundworld no-one could ever hope to replicate." Alternative Press (7/95, p.79) - Ranked #14 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...overcame their influences and fulfilled their promise....a record at once so exhausting yet exhilarating, so beautiful yet ugly, so soothing and swirling yet chaotic and dissonant....It will alter your perception of everything music can be..." Alternative Press (5/01, pp.90-1) - "...One of rock's greatest, most innovative and most celebrated albums..." Melody Maker (12/91) - Ranked #7 in Melody Maker's list of the `Top 30 Albums Of 1991.' Q (Magazine) (p.148) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "All the hard lines of rock'n'roll -- the riff, the lyric, the beat -- have been collapsed into something freer....LOVELESS was -- and remains -- inimitable." Q (Magazine) (p.119) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "On LOVELESS, a sublime sense of disorientation comes as standard, not least on 'What You Want' and 'When You Sleep,' where pile-driving guitars surge..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.118) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he result is a kind of sonic rapture, infinitely deep and wide and spiritually charged....There are great pop songs in here, too..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.50) - Ranked #18 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "LOVELESS twisted the sonic clutter rattling within Kevin Shields' imagination into an epic reality." New York Times (Publisher) (1/1/92) - "...While most current rock prizes crisply articulated digital sounds and rhymes, My Bloody Valentine offers pure defiance: songs in which thickly layered guitars and nearly indecipherable voices add up to a tuneful murk, elusive but memorable..."

91年発表ながらその斬新さと衝撃はうすれません。ヴォーカルが聴き取れないほどの轟音ノイズと多重録音から生まれたズレて歪んだ分厚いギターサウンドはこの世のものとは思えない気持ちよさです。 (C)YKYM