My Bloody Valentine is a name synonymous with blissed-out guitars and woozy, airy vocals. After their 1991 masterpiece Loveless set the standard for shoegaze music, they mostly just kind of disappeared. After twenty-two years without releasing a new album, suddenly announced their new album in February of 2013. The blurred guitars were still there, the hazy vocals were still there, but MBV brought a more ambient and electronic atmosphere, cold and distant. The experimental edge comes through on Wonder 2 which starts with a jungle-esque drum loop that sounds like a jet plane taking off, and Kevin Shield’s underwater cooing bubbling under the restlessly building cacophony.
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