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British shoegaze icon My Bloody Valentine to properly reissue 1991 masterpiece
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Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine performs on stage during the All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Aug. 1, 2009 . (Agence France -Presse/Bryan Bedder/Getty Images/)
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y Bloody Valentine, the Anglo-Irish rock legends known for their abstract guitar-based symphonies, have announced they will reissue on vinyl their 1991 record "Loveless", which was hailed by critics as a masterpiece of the rock genre known as shoegazing.
The band announced on their website that for the reissue project, "Loveless" would be "cut on 180 gram vinyl album mastered from analog tapes using Studer A80 VU PRE and Neumann VMS 80 cutting lathe for full analog signal path."
The reissue album can now be pre-ordered from their website www.mybloodyvalentine.org and will be available in stores starting Jan. 18, 2018.
Available for the first time, fully analog mastered 180g vinyl versions of Loveless and Isn’t Anything - https://t.co/PeOFgw7ngQ pic.twitter.com/cHfs7vbrOC
— TheOfficialMBV (@TheOfficialMBV) October 6, 2017
Fans of My Bloody Valentine have long anticipated the vinyl reissue, given the subpar quality of the album's recordings currently available on the market.
For an album whose recording process took two years to finish and cost Creation Records £250,000 almost bankrupting the label, early pressings of "Loveless" have suffered from sonic problems.
Frontman Kevin Shields blamed the problem on recording giant Warner Bros, who released the album for the world market.
"In America, Warner Bros licensed "Loveless" to Plain Records, and they basically just ripped [the audio] off the CD and put it on vinyl [in 2003]. They did an awful, terrible job. It was done without my permission, and the sound quality was 100 percent wrong. It was a rip off to anyone who bought it," Shields told music magazine Pitchfork in a 2013 interview.
In 2012, Shields decided to remaster "Loveless" from the original master tapes and released the record on CD and digital files. The current vinyl reissue is a follow-up to the project.
In the same year, Pitchfork gave a 10 out of 10 rating for "Loveless", certifying it as a classic.
Also in 2012, the classic rock-oriented Rolling Stone, put "Loveless" at number 221 in their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
In 2013, British rock magazine NME ranked the album at number 18 on their 500 greatest albums of all time list.
