...One of rock's greatest, most innovative and most celebrated albums... Alternative Press (5/01, pp.90-1)

Ranked #14 in AP's list of the `Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...overcame their influences and fulfilled their promise....a record at once so exhausting yet exhilarating, so beautiful yet ugly, so soothing and swirling yet chaotic and dissonant....It will alter your perception of everything music can be... Alternative Press (7/95, p.79)

...simply the most astounding-sounding album produced last year..." - Rating: A Entertainment Weekly (2/21/92, p.55)

Ranked #7 in Melody Maker's list of the `Top 30 Albums Of 1991. Melody Maker (12/91)

5 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he result is a kind of sonic rapture, infinitely deep and wide and spiritually charged....There are great pop songs in here, too... Mojo (Publisher) (p.118)

Ranked #18 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "LOVELESS twisted the sonic clutter rattling within Kevin Shields' imagination into an epic reality. Mojo (Publisher) (p.50)

...While most current rock prizes crisply articulated digital sounds and rhymes, My Bloody Valentine offers pure defiance: songs in which thickly layered guitars and nearly indecipherable voices add up to a tuneful murk, elusive but memorable... New York Times (Publisher) (1/1/92)

4 Stars - Very Good - "...the last word in noise-pop....amounts to a virtual reinvention of the guitar....The rock-is-dead argument could very well stop here... Q (1/92, p.71)

Ranked #39 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime Q (10/01, p.49)

Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s. Q (12/99, p.70)

5 stars out of 5 -- "All the hard lines of rock'n'roll -- the riff, the lyric, the beat -- have been collapsed into something freer....LOVELESS was -- and remains -- inimitable. Q (Magazine) (p.148)

4 Stars - Excellent - "...guitarists Bilinda Butcher and Kevin Shields gently breathe pretty tunes into the thick, sweet waves of droning distortion....In My Bloody Valentine's magical kingdom, cacophany is the mind-altering path to beauty... Rolling Stone (3/5/92, p.68)

Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's. Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.50)

Ranked #16 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s. Spin (9/99, p.126)

This dreamy tsunami of sound blew minds, from Kurt Cobain to Radiohead to Isis. Spin (p.110)