My Bloody Valentine - m b v album flac

Honestly can't work out whether I like it or whether the whole album is just a big joke

Unlistenable pressing of an otherwise great album here. Well this album is obviously produced by MBV

So i just finished listening to all my my bloody valentine records back to back. I am lucky enough to own every release they did in and after 1988. Obviously, there's a massive gap between 1991 and this album so i played this straight after listening to the Tremolo EP. I've been a fan of MBV since i first heard them when i was in hospital in early 1989 and a close friend gave me a tape with Isn't Anything recorded on one side. I've dutifully bought every official release since.Well this album is obviously produced by MBV, that cannot be doubted, but this is a sad reflection of their earlier genius. This album feels thrown together and some generic "MBV production technique" applied to every track. The tracks themselves feel like those "in between" tracks that occur in Loveless so often but stretched out into full tracks so start nowhere, go nowhere and, thankfully end eventually. Two tracks i quite enjoyed, but only elements of the tracks (5 & 7 I think) - its such a forgettable experience it's already starting to fade moments from the record finishing...The same friend who gave me the tape of Isn't Anything also bought this and messaged me (before i heard it back in 2013) and claimed he was annoyed with the release because he couldn't find anything to hate about it. Well i can't say i hate it - i really disliked the 2nd to last track immensely - but the whole album is just uninspiring and uninteresting. Where was the overt sexiness of isn't anything? Where were the big dynamic shifts from Loveless or the playful flute or fiddle making catchy hook lines as per Soon and I Only Said? This album sounds somewhere between the two in terms of its production but has nothing to actually say.Very sad and disappointed to say that the MBV i love only existed between 1988 and 1991 only.

I ordered this direct from the band's website. . . . . Housed in a gatefold sleeve in the left side and pressed on 180 gram vinyl. The CD comes in a card sleeve with a booklet. Copies are shrink-wrapped and have a sticker with a barcode

Interesting, they might have started shrink-wrapping the orders after complaints about the pre-order shipments ripping through the gate-fold. My pre-order 180 gram and with the CD was not shrink-wrapped, and I ordered directly from the website also.

Perhaps my speakers but vinyl mastering sounds bass heavy and muddy. Not so much on the CD.

Back in the early 90's everyone was expecting these guys to become bigger than Sonic Youth. Then nothing happened. They left the scene, we finished school, and the MBV mythos slowly built.Dutifully, I pre-ordered this album expecting the best shoegaze / dreampop album in history (didn't we all). Given the years past to write, polish and record. They'd have to be bringing something pretty special back with them. That first listening was depressing. Tracks 2, 4, and 5 are OK, track 6 is better still. But the rest is just insulting. A cacophonous shrill that's embarrassing to listen to.My partner commented that they're probably just having a joke, at the expense of all the MBV hype over the years, saying how they know they’ll sell thousands of records, so they can record any crap and fans will buy it.Well, nice to see in other comments that praise this offering. But a 4 track EP would have been amazing.

Can't say I agree with you, I just discovered them last year and I like MBV.

5 years have done it well. Listen carefully. Its not a first listen kind of record, it takes time and it is incredible once you finally get it. A great comeback record.

We see eye to eye here. An Extended Play would have been a better choice, IMHO. Some tracks just feel like empty fillers. I am afraid any other MBV EP or LP beats this one by far - even Kevin Shields songs for the Lost In Translation SDTK sound a lot better. It all feels like uninspired and dull. A bit of a letdown.

And to think that we waited over 20 years for this? First time I heard them they opened for Dino Jr. at City Gardens and was blown away. Loveless is a perfect album.mbv is perfect crap.

Still for sale on MBV's web site. Go give them your money. Don't buy this.

It's impossible not to compare m b v to Loveless because Loveless was such a groundbreaking art piece, but this albums stands on its own and I'm sure over the years it will stand the test of time. Although between Loveless and m b v there are no significant changes in the aesthetics of the band, there is a different approach to the sound that pushes new musical boundaries. First, the sound on this record is HUGE. It should be heard on vinyl (as the band intended) for its fullest appreciation. The completely analog production makes a big difference with Loveless, in which the sound was flat and all squashed together. M b v sounds robust, warm and open. The first side of the album has this elongated feeling instead of the exciting rush of the initial tracks of loveless. The rhythmic patterns and chord progressions of "Only tomorrow" and "Who sees you" are very unpredictable on the first listen, instead of drawing you in they kind of disconnect you from reality and carry you along in their sound waves. Previous MBV songs always had that Cocteau twin-like melodic pop flow, but m b v develops slowly, with subtle naunces in a more impressionistic way. The songs are more difficult to follow and frequently make you loss the notion of time. Things here are taken slowly. e.g. side A finishes with a full 5 minute ambient track, "Is this yes" and on side B "Nothing is" is a repetitive guitar drone with a subtle crescendo on the percussion. The songs don't feel so emotionally charged as if the world was going to end (as loveless did) , they sound calm. My Bloody Valentine has always been a band about love, but this time is not the feeling of butterflies in the stomach of first love, it's a more mature and contemplative kind of love. M b v is also a very sensual sounding record. The melodic tracks ("She found now", "If i am" and "New you") melt you down and touch your heart only like The Valentines can. The remarkable musical innovations here are in the last tracks. "In another way" sounds really uncomfortable and pleasant at the same time in an Aphex-twin kind of way, like a contradiction between the rushed feeling of the beat and the nostalgic quality of the melody. The result is an otherwordly sound, futuristic in spirit like "Soon" was in 1990. "Wonder 2" is the most interesting song of the album. The band impresses dissolved as human entities as if the sound had taken over completely. In this song so much things happen at the same time musically, but surprisingly The Valentines manage not to sound pretentious, they sound as one would have expected them to sound in 2013. What they do it's absolutely groundbreaking but at the sime time feels so natural. I guess that happens when the expectations are so high, you assume things from people and you forget how great they are. About the artwork it continues in the line of Tremolo and Loveless, everything looks very blurry but if you look close you can recognize old pictures of the band and some audio equipment pictures. Also if you pay close attention to the CD you'll see there's a barely visible little sentence written on it which says "Nothing is this and yes I really love you" which seems to make a connection between track 4 and 8 and confirm the idea this is a conceptual album about love.

Great album and a great pressing!! This is a record that wouldn't work if it weren't flawlessly mastered and pressed on vinyl, doesn't let you down!

If this LP sounds a bit sluggish and sleepy, try at plus 2, livens it up a bit.

Besides the common problem of the record breaking thru the spine of the gatefold, this thing is perfect. Loud, bright but warm, and full. Play this loud!

No need for this piece of crap. There are many cheap, decent second-hand copies of the official release going around, and they sound fabulous in comparison.

Bought this secondhand in a record shop. I am surprised by the packaging quality. The cardboard is pretty thin and the artwork color is bluer than the CD version. It comes as a gatefold (there was no CD inside), the record weights 174g and the matrix / runout fits. I am also not impressed by the sound of it. It looks like a bootleg to me but there is actually no bootleg version of this in gatefold listed on discogs. If it really is an official version I am pretty disappointed.

There is a bootleg version apparently, but it doesn't come in a gatefold. https://www.discogs.com/My-Bloody-Valentine-M-B-V/release/4885998

This is only 8 dollars???? What happened?? I paid 40 bucks for this only 6 months ago lol

That's a copy of the CD someone listed in the wrong place.

Totally blown away by how great this sounds on vinyl. My US first pressing of The Wall is the only thing that comes close to the sonic disparity this album exhibits between vinyl and digital files.Great record.

Discogs sellers are dreaming asking for £42 for something that you can still buy direct from MBV for £18. There you go http://www.mybloodyvalentine.org/BundleDetail.aspx?rid=139

It's 30 bucks on there but ok

I have the vinyl in a gatefold sleeve incorporating a cd. The sound is dismal - murky, distant, distorted, unlistenable in fact. The sleeve is just blown up from the cd cover and hence very low res and grainy. Very very very disappointing. My Bloody Valentine were always "lo-fi" but this is ridiculous!

Huh?? This record sounds near perfect, you must be bonkers mate.

You need your ears checked, if you indeed bought an original and not a bootleg.

what? This sounds AMAZING. keep listening to your "loudness war" CDs

Think about how good this record sounds, now just imagine how good the analogue cuts of their back catalog might sound like. Loveless and IA as pure analogue cuts, heaven!

i remember ordering this when it came out. when they had initially shipped them out they were unprotected and mine was damaged, so when i contacted them they sent another copy protected, no charge. i think they handled the shipping problems situation well. pretty nice of them, i still have both copies