Loveless
(32/100 Greatest Albums Ever)

After three years, 18 engineers and £250,000, Kevin Shields emerged from behind the sandbags with an alchemist’s elixir that went no wave, new wave, everywhere and nowhere.
The freeform wilfulness of those ornate tuning missteps, submerged vocals, spidery drum-machines and looped back bass lines coalesced into a shadowy force that just kept on coming.