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Japancakes
Loveless
Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Only Shallow
2. Loomer
3. Touched
4. To Here Knows When
5. When You Sleep
6. I Only Said
7. Come in Alone
8. Sometimes
9. Blown a Wish
10. What You Want
11. Soon

CD Details

All Artists: Japancakes
Title: Loveless
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Darla Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 11/13/2007
Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Experimental Music, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 708527018828

Synopsis

Album Description

Athens, GA's experimental, instrumental, Americana group, Japancakes cover My Bloody Valentine's classic Loveless record from start to finish with pedal steel and cello in place of vocal and lead melodies -- and without any distortion. MBV?s Loveless (Creation: 1991) remains the defining record of the genre and completely unparalleled by any artist since. More soon.

CD Reviews

Blasphemous, amazing and beautiful

TheTechGuy | West Philly | 11/26/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It's hard to imagine anyone having the guts to remake the entire Loveless album. It's even harder to imagine that capturing the intricacy of that album with piano, organ, flute, cello, overdriven Telecasters (or at least the overdriven Telecaster sound), steel guitar, bass and drums. Most noticeably missing from the list is distortion. While Japancakes' album is awash in reverb, echo, space echo, delay feedback (you get the point) the overall effect is the quintessential ambient americana treatment of the greatest glimmer rock/shoegazer album of the 1990s. While My Bloody Valentine's laborious studio production, seems to be the result of about two years of meticulous cutting and pasting audio tracks on late 80's studio equipment, Japancakes reminds us that Kevin Shields also had a keen, yet unorthodox sense of melody, counterpoint and working with variations on themes. Behind the distortion and unorthodox mixing style of the original, Japancakes prove, (as MBV fans have always felt in their guts) that underneath the noise Loveless is a delicate beautiful album filled with musical themes that may haunt you for years."