My Bloody Valentine: Loveless
Dele Fadele, NME, 9 November 1991
RECENTLY SOME DEEP-SEA divers stumbled on an underground cave thousands of feet below sea level. Stalagmites, stalactites and mini-icicles greeted their brave entrance, almost too beautiful to behold. Once their dazzled eyes adjusted to the scene, however, they noticed intricate drawings of animals on the cave walls that, presumably, had been there years before the Ice Age, 200,000 years before Christ.
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