LISTENING

Sun. March 14, 2004
Categories: Abstract Dynamics

to:
My Bloody Valentine, ‘Loveless’: driven to rediscover this by Shields interview on Friday, and what a rediscovery. If anything, it is more arresting, entrancing, enveloping than ever. Anti-climactic drone ‘rock’: each track a plateau, beyond tension-release. Honeyed wooziness. Bleary clarity. Blurred and lucid.
Fantastic Ruff Squad tape from Luka . Another series of plateaus of a wholly different kind.

4 Responses to “LISTENING”

  1. undercurrent Says:
    March 15th, 2004 at 11:23 am

    i second that – one of the greatest and most lasting testaments to ‘indie’ or whatever you want to call it, this is another of those albums that creates its own genre.
    I still remember the first time I heard it, and saw the video for the single, and actually felt physically sick!

  2. Murray Says:
    March 16th, 2004 at 2:41 pm

    Goes without saying that its influence is still huge, but sometimes artists take it too literally. For example, Joy Zipper’s new LP – I overheard it in Rough Trade today – is a straight facsimile of the sound with the odd US alt-country motif chucked in.

  3. undercurrent Says:
    March 16th, 2004 at 3:55 pm

    yeah of course….well, remember Ride…hahahaha!

  4. mark k-punk Says:
    March 16th, 2004 at 7:05 pm

    I think we could almost measure how good a band is by how bad their influence is; the better and more groundrbeaking the band the more slavish imitators they breed. Although as per Mark Sinker’s comments (repeated here: k-punk.blogspot.com/2003_06_15_k-punk_archive.html) perhaps it’s wrong to conceptualize this relationship in terms of influence at all.