My Bloody Valentine Play New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom

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My Bloody Valentine are, as Rolling Stone Magazine says, committed to distortion; they deliver a wall of sound and light, and turn that around on itself.

My Bloody Valentine Play New York's Hammerstein Ballroom

My Bloody Valentine plays Hammerstein Ballroom on November 11

They take turns singing, or seeming to sing; there are no intelligible words, just murmuring beneath the din. My Bloody Valentine Play New York's Hammerstein BallroomThe sound builds, seems to get louder – although nothing like their 2008 tour – pauses and starts again, a certain blissed-out monotony, chaotic but not, that wears everything down, until it’s just one long thing, only stopping to breath, all of this until the last song, You Made Me Realise. My Bloody Valentine Play New York's Hammerstein BallroomThis final, drawn-out moment goes straight in, vibrates against the organs and veins and fights your heart rate until you feel like you’ve been initiated into a murderous cult. My Bloody Valentine Play New York's Hammerstein BallroomAnd then they leave, and that’s that.