My Bloody Valentine - Only Tomorrow

I say that as someone who liked it a lot but got a sinking feeling at the same time. A strange experience.

Might have worked better as an extra track on that EP compilation.

lovely is not an adjective i would associate with this song. the guitar sound is abrasive, the riff is grim and relentless. bilinda butcher's elf-like singing though is a very nice contrast here. it is like heaven juxtaposed to the hell of the raw, distorted guitar.

concerning the sequencing to me it also seems strange to put the ultimate, outstanding song at the second place, it overshadows the rest of the album. loveless for me had the peak in the middle, "when you sleep". for others the closer "soon" was the climax.

actually the pf review of this track is the most interesting i have read about it yet, it does not succeed in explaining all the magic of it. the sentence about bilinda butchers's voice morphing into an ascending quasar comes close though. that is when the siren comes in in between the different song parts.

the guitar tracks in this song have the wooliest, best sounding distortion

Has anyone typed about the lead guitar melody that comes in for the last half of the track, though?

It's that element of this song that really makes it special for me, in terms of how that guitar line threads through the chords that the tune has been cycling through the whole time, but puts things all slightly askew, too, somehow. Really beautiful/catchy melodic soloing.

In other words, what Alex was getting at with

"the fourth part starting at about 3'30'' where a second (in comparison to the fuzzy one almost acoustic sounding) guitar appears with a new sweet and totally existential melancholic tune, that's it, BLISS"

this is still the song i have listened to most this year, i love to hear it in the airplane on the one hour flight from berlin to frankfurt and back. how the fuzzy guitar tone turns into this extraterrestrian beauty of a melody still leaves me completely speechless. it's like a mosaic broken into millions of pieces which are brought back into their original position by a miracle and the fragmented piece is even more beautiful than the original oeuvre.

here is what kevin shields had to say about the song in an interview with pf:

In putting out the new record, do you feel like it allowed you to move forward as a musician?
Definitely. It closed a loop in time; it resolved or something. "Only Tomorrow," the vocal melodies, even though I didn't record them on tape, I always had those melodies in my head, changing and shifting a bit over time. But they were something that always stayed with me. And I always had something in the back of my head to finish that. But I always thought I should record a proper new record first and stick that on there.

somehow it makes sense that this song was a tune in his head for a long time before it finally was recorded. actually i am quite astonished that he was able to transfer this amazing music from his head onto record.

This is far and away my favorite song on the album.

Yeah great description Alex, you pretty much nailed it's awesomeness

somehow this song - which was my fave from 2013 - sounds so shit on speakers i can't believe it. i always listened to it on earplugs all year long but now i am listening to it at home on the stereo. and the whole thing sounds so muddy, so low quality, so crap. is this maybe a song which has to be listened to on your own, a headphone track? listened to in the right circumstances it is a mind-fucker, that's for sure.

huh the whole cd sounds great on my stereo

maybe it's my stereo then.

Yeah, get better speakers / amp / CD player.

speakers are from the uk, celestion. amp is an old jvc. maybe it is the ipod. but somehow i don't believe it. does mbv sound better than loveless on your stereo nick?

because loveless already had this terrible wishy-washy sound.

i haven,t heard the loveless reissue yet, but wrt the Isn't Anything reissue, i was really impressed by how much more defined and 'thick' the guitars were. it reminds me of the mobile fidelity issue of nevermind.