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Review Baffled awe as Valentine's day arrives at last after 22 years: m b v My Bloody Valentine 5/5
2013
Overview
In one sense, the arrival of My Bloody Valentine's m b v was - to use a word no one had heard of the last time the quartet released an album - an omnishambles. A follow-up to 1991's Loveless was supposed to appear at the end of last year; instead, nothing happened bar an announcement that the album was complete. Nine days ago, in response to a fan's shouted query at a gig, Kevin Shields muttered noncommittally that it \"might be out in two or three days\". Then, when the album finally did appear to download, just before midnight on Saturday, the band's redesigned website immediately crashed, causing an enterprising person in Indiana to try to involve the US president himself. \"The My Bloody Valentine website isn't working and there's a new record on it,\" read a petition filed on the White House website. It's not m b v's only unexpected moment. The closing Wonder 2 is flatly astonishing. Most attempts to meld drum'n'bass with rock are almost unimaginably awful: ungainly, clodhopping attempts to squeeze guitars somewhere amid the genre's rhythmic clutter. But Wonder 2 sounds incredible, like the sonic counterpart of a dust storm, with Shields's vocal - another beautiful melody - drifting pacifically through it. It instils a kind of pleasurably baffled awe: how did someone arrive at the conclusion that a song should sound like this? Then again, as was established long ago, with My Bloody Valentine, inexplicability is very much part of the deal.
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