10 Great Rock Albums Recorded In Really Weird Ways
3. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Most bands go into a studio, bang out a few prepared songs over a couple of months and move on to what’s next. The irony is that Creation Records gave My Bloody Valentine five days to record their sophomore effort and the finished product wound up taking well over two years.
The number of studios associated with the recording of Loveless is out of this world as the band bounced from one to next; originally within a number of weeks and then, for a period, it began to become a case of a new studio every single day. Loveless stopped and started several times, with months and months between new sessions. So much so that guitarist Kevin Shields has remarked that he often forgot what tunings he had recorded in.
The vocal recordings were a different matter altogether. The studio was covered in blackout curtains, the band refused to let the production team hear what was being laid down on the track until it was done, and vocalist Bilinda Butcher was dropped in front of a microphone as soon as she had woken up to best capture her dreamy vocals.
Loveless nearly bankrupted Creation Records, but in the end it went down as one of the finest moments of the shoegaze genre.