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.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
This is far and away my favorite song on the album.
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
Yeah great description Alex, you pretty much nailed it's awesomeness
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 19 August 2013 20:01 (ten years ago) link
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.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:19 (ten years ago) link
huh the whole cd sounds great on my stereo
― brimstead, Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
maybe it's my stereo then.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:54 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, get better speakers / amp / CD player.
― the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
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?
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 1 February 2014 23:01 (ten years ago) link
because loveless already had this terrible wishy-washy sound.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 1 February 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
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.
― nothing a reincarnated ronnie james dio couldn't fix (brimstead), Wednesday, 5 February 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link