IT TOOK MORE THAN 2 AND HALF YEARS, BUT IT CLICKED

IT TOOK MORE THAN 2 AND HALF YEARS, BUT IT CLICKED

Discuss this masterpiece

I could post a huge paragraph that I wrote for an album of the week thing I do with my buddies but it's too autistic so I won't

but this is my fave album of all time and I'm a huge metalhead

It's a really beautiful album, but I think you can only really "get" how good it is if you listen to it really fucking loud.

I liked it almost immediately, but that's probably just because I fought to digest JAMC's Psychocandy before it, so I was primed.

why would you listen to an album for two and a half years if you didn't like it

maybe he listened to it every once in a while to see if he'd like it more since it was so acclaimed

It's like a feather painted by the nectarine tears of a butterfly, emitting a blinding radiance to all Flora and Fauna. Colors stream into the river, crafting sculptures of trees to scare all who remain.

please do, seriously

>Listen to it first 2 and half years ago
>Meh
Listen to it a year ago because I keep seeing posts about how amazing it is
>Meh
>Pay close, close attention to the music for the first time
>Clicks

I'm really not trying to be disrespectful but how can it take 2.5 years for that album to click? It's super poppy and has lots of repetitive catchy melodies.

Only Shallow clicked at first listen for me because it's literally a pop song with distortion added.

Fucked up the greentext but yeah exactly this () happened

I always really liked Only Shallow, but I didn't care at all for anything else.

Then, I payed close, close attention realized how complex the details were and took in all the intricacies of the record. Instantly got hooked.

ok well for context, I do an album of the week with some close friends where we all take turns picking an album and everyone has to listen and write down their thoughts and what songs they liked and rank it on a basic scale and for my week I picked loveless, prepare for a huge wall of text, also I get really rambly and my thoughts are a mess

I don't even know where to possibly begin with this album. About a month ago I was sitting in plug.dj with one of my closest friends, sharing music that we both liked that were vastly different in an attempt to find some overlap in stuff we'd both like. Most of the stuff my friend was playing was shoegaze and indie and I thought it was alright but nothing really caught my ear. Then Sometimes by My Bloody Valentine came on and the riff at the very start caught my attention and never let it go. I was in voice chat with him constantly saying how I liked it a lot. Song ended and we went back to our listening and it was stuff like Slowdive and Spiritualized and nothing else really caught my attention like Sometimes did. My friend's playlist eventually wrapped around and he didn't care to add more songs quickly so we would just skip his while he looked for more, but every time Sometimes came on I'd be sure to listen to it. The next day I downloaded the album to listen to because I liked Sometimes so much, and played it while I was cleaning. I listened to it three times that day because it just gripped me like no other album had before.

1/2

Something about the inaudible vocals, over distorted guitars, nearly nonexistant drums and other background sounds just drew me in and held me tight while it took me for a journey on every listen. From hearing those four snare hits in Only Shallow onward, you're taken through an album made painstakingly with love, compassion, and over-obsession. I tend to listen to my loud metal with screaming about buildings as tombstones or hailing Satan while you live in a castle in Norway, but the melancholy distortion was something I was familiar with and it just wraps itself around lyrics you can't understand and to this day MBV has not revealed what they're actually saying in their songs and I never looked back. I honestly love this album more than words can tell and I've only heard it for the first time about a month ago. I'm easily impressed, but it's difficult for an album to truly grip me like Loveless has, and I'm grateful it has because it's one of the greatest art pieces I've ever had the liberty of being able to experience for myself. Every single song is incredible, and despite the overall "depressing" tone of the album, there are many upbeat moments that lift you up and you can feel the emotion behind every moment. The final song on the album, Soon, even strays a bit from the path it laid with the previous ten songs to lead you do

2/2

hope I'm not too autistic, I just like this album a lot and it's really special to me

also I wrote this a while ago

>meme album

>if it's critically acclaimed, it must be good
sunny sundae smile is their only good release

>I think you can only really "get" how good it is if you listen to it really fucking loud.
Fucking this! If I listen to this album at a low volume, or even normal volume, it just sounds like annoying boring distortion. But when I crank it up to full volume and I'm in the right mood it connects with me in a way no other album does and gets me so pumped.

This album was so poppy and bright that it triggered reverse psychology for me and I was like wtf is this

>you can only "get" this album if you damage your hearing

When You Sleep is magic

Swans gave me tinnitus but that shit was worth it

who got

i like this album but it’s not “nice” to listen to. so i almost never put it on..is this the same for anyone else?

What would you consider nice?

Stockholm Syndrome: The Thread

Love the album of the week idea

Greatest album of all time

i guess what i mean isn’t “nice” but relaxing

Loveless is pretty relaxing once you hear it enough. I've fallen asleep to it several times. The album doesn't even "rock", outside of Come In Alone and Only Shallow.

i love this album so much i won an ebay auction for the cassette pressing for £30, should be worth a tenner but its money im happy to spend

It took you this long to get entry level noise pop?

it's really fun, we've been doing it for a few months now and I actually do it in a couple groups even

I made my friends listen to goat horns today and most enjoyed it so that was a fun experience

Neat. I remember being this excited when it first clicked for me 3 years ago.