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“Really, it’s too easy for this album to turn you into a pretentious twat. Be very careful!!!” writes Mike McGonigal, editor of Yeti, an American arts and culture journal. He’s talking about a modern masterpiece, and I am well aware this strikes you as a shocking statement. Part of the 33 1/3 book series, he writes about his favourite band and its seminal album. My Bloody Valentine and Loveless, the masterpiece Kevin Shields & co never followed.

But what this book stands out for is not the album and musicians it talks about. It’s McGonical’s own writing style, the way he talk about the album and makes you feel sick in the stomach after every vivid description of a feedback, that way he sinks deep into culture to find similarities between painters and the Irish band. He is a fanboy and not afraid to show it. He is a rabid music nerd before being a journalist and a professional. He knows very well that music is a visceral experience. And here he presents his own insides.

You really don’t have to be a MBV fan or even know the band that well in order to enjoy this book. All it takes is a passion for well written idiosyncratic material and teach your brain new figures of speech.