Books like Loveless

This album is like being dragged between three giant blue icebergs and having them smash slowly together and then drag you down into the freezing ocean and you drown. Or some such gushing prose. It's great. It's so loud that even when you play it quiet it's loud. It's got a vocalist but that's like having a refereee in a viking raid, superfluous to requirements. It's got a drummer too but he's mixed so far down he may as well have not turned up and just played in his bedroom at home. So this album is JUST GUITARS. This is the electricguitarriest record ever, there's about 20 layers of guitars on every track, it's not even guitar anymore, it breaks through into some other level beyond chords, it's just noise but it's sweet, never dischordant, it's a celebration of something, probably being alive, it's ecstatic is what it is.That's the record. Unfortunately this book tells me all about the people who made it and thus demonstrates very well that sometimes it's better not to ask.POSTSCRIPTEPs 1988-1991 has just been released, which is a double cd of odds and sods and it's got a ton of great stuff on it. So all Loveless fans should get it now....