Post Description

My Bloody Valentine, and especially Loveless, can inspire people. That inspiration results in different things for different people. For Kenny Feinstein, frontman for Portland roots rockers Water Tower, it’s a cover of the entire Loveless album using acoustic guitar, mandolin, dobro, fiddle, and dulcimer. Loveless: Hurts to Love makes abundantly clear what I think is the great appeal of Loveless. Peeling back the layers of distortion and noise reveals that there are songs in there.
Loveless: Hurts to Love recreates the order of the original record and adds a cover of “Swallow,” from the Tremolo EP. There’s something amazing about hearing the recognizable riffs, if that’s what you’d call them, from songs like “Only Shallow,” “When You Sleep,” “I Only Said,” and “Soon” rendered totally by acoustic instruments. The studio manipulations of Kevin Shields are re-imagined as some kind of wild, bluegrass cacophony; and they still sound like shoegaze.
“Loomer” transforms the original’s beautiful wall of electric guitar sound into something beautifully spare, relying on the wail of a fiddle and handclaps. Similarly, the exotic sounds of “Swallow” become something distinctly American in Feinstein’s hands, while retaining the feel of the original.
Feinstein plays most of the instruments on Loveless: Hurts to Love, with assists from co-producers Jeff Kazor and Bruce Kaphan and singer-songwriter Richard Buckner. Together, these four succeed in creating a new way for diehard fans to appreciate a classic, while potentially introducing a whole new audience to the sounds of shoegaze.

Tracklisting:
1. Kenny Feinstein - Only Shallow (5:00)
2. Kenny Feinstein - Loomer (3:07)
3. Kenny Feinstein - Touched (1:50)
4. Kenny Feinstein - To Here Knows When (4:22)
5. Kenny Feinstein - When You Sleep (4:09)
6. Kenny Feinstein - I Only Said (3:51)
7. Kenny Feinstein - Come in Alone (3:29)
8. Kenny Feinstein - Sometimes (5:32)
9. Kenny Feinstein - Blown a Wish (4:00)
10. Kenny Feinstein - What You Want (feat. Richard Buckner) (4:24)
11. Kenny Feinstein - Soon (4:59)
12. Kenny Feinstein - Swallow (3:44)

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xCD
Genre: Indie Folk
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2013 
Speelduur: 48 minuten
Cover: Front is in de RARs verwerkt