My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes

You have to listen to this one loud, preferable in headphones, or it won't work.

This song is entirely about texture.  Kevin Shields is redefining what a guitar can do, using feedback and distortion almost like a separate instrument, a disembodied wash of harmonic sound that feeds on itself and merges with itself in layers too complex to understand. You have no choice but to surrender to it.  

If you listen carefully, you can hear the pick strumming the guitar strings, but because the guitar sound is now abstracted away into a self-sustaining haze of distortion, the strumming has become divorced from it, the picking now a mere percussion instrument, like a stick stroking a washboard.  

This song is said to be popular with heroin addicts.  I've never tried heroin, but this almost makes me want to.

You can read more about My Bloody Valentine in my post about Soon.

Bonus Video
Here's a 3-minute clip from a BBC retrospective, 30 years later, with Kevin Shields talking about his guitar sound: