Loveless

Step 1. Listen with good headphones/speaker setup
Step 2. Play the album loud and in darkness
Step 3. Try and differentiate between the layers and walls of sound
Step 4. Let your mind soar through the beautiful crashing soundscapes
Step 5. Cry all night at the beauty of sound you just experienced

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>>69423112
damn... imma try this.

>>69422996
Because its the only album that does shoegaze/dream pop's gimmick well.

>>69423112
>good headphones
i enjoyed it more with shit headphones, someone explain this

>>69423186
probably your pleb taste

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>>69423151
kek

Unique and highly creative approach to sound design combined with excellent songwriting that supplements the album's general aesthetic flawlessly

>>69423177
Typical Scaruffi drone.

>>69422996
You have to enjoy the noise, dats it.

It's because the songs are so good and the sounds are even better
like To Here Knows When is probably the closest anyone will come to sonic perfection

>>69423296
delet

basically a dude stumbled on the formula to get some of the most satisfying and beautiful sounds out of a bass-drums-guitar-vox combo and spent a long time creating simple pop songs that could act as a vehicle for those sounds

>>69422996
It's all in the texture, baby.
There's a beautiful mixture of dirty and clean that sounds like it both coalesces into one sound and yet all the layers remain very distinct. Shields was a perfectionist and he made sure every layer works on its own yet also adds to the whole in more than one way, either texturally, melodically or rhythmically.
This combined with open and suspended chord structures make the music feel like its kind of floating on laudanum or something.
He takes simple pop mechanics and drowns them in mush.

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>>69425284
Well said. It blows my mind how long ago this album came out and yet it still sounds timeless and unlike anything else.

The way the smoldering chords and riffs stretch into infinity, it's like the roar of an airplane taking off except it's singing to you - enveloping you. It's so harsh and abrasive but somehow warm and comforting. Then they somehow got the vocals to sound like they're whispering right in your ear among all the noisy chaos. It really is aesthetic perfection.