It's hard to find a more beloved or influential album for indie music, even if not directly. It's a masterpiece.

This album is so ahead of it's time that it predicted an entire genre of music

I want to like this album but every time iv'e given it a listen I just come away from it thinking it might be the most overrated album of all time, at least one of them.

Really weird

Didn't know much about shoegaze music until I did some research on this album and the genre. Lush textures, droney melodies, angular guitars and instrumentation, noisy arrangements. Not a casual listen, if this came on your shuffled phone's playlist it would feel out of place. With that being said, its great to listen to from start to finish. Its nice to listen to in the car or as background music while doing chores. I discovered this album and Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins at the same time and fell in love, hopefully you will too, or at last give it a chance.

It does for shoegaze what Nevermind did in the same year for grunge. Though at the same time it's so much more than that. Wrapped inside the wall-of-sound are magnificent sentiments.

Textured, psychedelic masterpiece

When I first heard Only Shallow it blew me away. I had no idea that music could sound like that. One of the most unique sounding albums out there. Every track is good. My favorites are Only Shallow, When You Sleep, and Come in Alone. What You Want was my least favorite at first, but it's grown on me.

I know it sounds dumb, but this is underrated. It has some strange kind of celestial quality that no other album has. If there's heaven, this is how it sounds like: magnificent but incomprhensible to humans.

Never even heard of this group before I started using this website almost 6 years ago and I'll only ever seen this record referenced on this website. For so long this was an album that always taunted me with it's almost universal acclaim yet going unnoticed by a majority of the music community. Today, I heard Loveless for the first time and after some slight adjustments(using headphones), I was bewildered by an abrasive, harsh and yet, overwhelmingly gorgeous dimension of soundscapes that have left a ring in my ear that is somehow calming. There are only two other albums I've heard that created such a profound reaction of pure bliss in my mind and ears. I consider those two to be in the top 5 greatest albums ever put forth, where this gem will be joining them in the #5 spot. A masterwork of sound, simple as that.