''Yellow Loveless'' is a
tribute album
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featuring
cover version
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s of the 11 songs from
My Bloody Valentine's 1991 record ''
Loveless
Loveless may refer to:
Film and television
* ''Loveless'' (film), a 2017 Russian film
* ''The Loveless'', a 1982 film starring Willem Dafoe
* Dr. Loveless, a character in ''The Wild Wild West'' TV series and film adaptation
Literature
* ''Love ...
''.
The album was released on January 23, 2013, by High Fader Records, coincidentally just after the announcement of My Bloody Valentine's third studio album, ''
mbv'' (2013).
The album features exclusive covers by Japanese artists from various genres, including
sludge metal
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band
Boris,
pop punk
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group
Shonen Knife
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, and
shoegaze
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band
Tokyo Shoegazer
is a Japanese shoegaze band formed in 2010. Their debut album, ''Crystallize'', was released in 2011. The band contributed two tracks to the My Bloody Valentine tribute album '' Yellow Loveless'', those being covers of "Only Shallow" and "I On ...
.
Track listing
References
External links
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Tribute albums
2013 compilation albums
Compilation albums by Japanese artists
My Bloody Valentine (band)
Shoegaze compilation albums