Soon

My Bloody Valentine closed Loveless with “Soon,” seven minutes of Kevin Shields’s tremolo-bar guitar reimagined as a slow-motion dance track. The drums are looped from a previous Valentines single. The guitars bend the entire harmonic scheme downward and upward in waves. The vocals are almost entirely indistinct.

It sounds like weather because it functions like weather: a front of sound moving through the room, denser than air, pressurizing everything it touches. Brian Eno once called it the future of pop music. Thirty-four years later the future still hasn’t caught up. Put it on loud and stand inside it.