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CHRIS HERON From Volume XLIV, No. II, OCTOBER 2008. Excerpt: « Much has been made in recent months of the sixteen years that can now be labelled as My Bloody Valentine’s break-up. Following the delayed release of their since canonized Loveless, the band struggled on a follow-up – the myriad reasons each conflicting with or simply raising the bizarreness of the last – before lead songwriter Kevin Shields’ Sisyphisuian methods toppled back down and the quartet split ways. Years ago, this space would typically be reserved to engage in the mythologization of what was occurring in and after this period, but as we’ve now grown accustomed to left-of-the-dial titans from this period reuniting – Dinosaur Jr., Pixies... even forefathers like Mission of Burma and, depending on when you tuned out, Wire – these hypothesizations formerly traded through mailing lists have become antiquated and the reunion has become a mere expectation for younger fans [...] » | 
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