Loveless is the second studio album by Irish rock band My Bloody Valentine, released on 4 November 1991 by Creation Records, and recorded over a two-year period between 1989 and 1991. Vocalist and guitarist Kevin Shields dominated the arduous recording process, perfecting his guitar tremolo techniques and tuning systems, sampled percussion, feedback and meticulous production methods. During a two-year period the band recorded at nineteen studios, with a recording and production cost rumoured to have been around £250,000.

Preceded by the EPs Glider (1990) and Tremolo (1991), the album reached number 24 on the UK Albums Chart and was widely appraised by critics for its sonic innovations and Shields's "virtual reinvention of the guitar." Following the album's release, My Bloody Valentine were removed from their record label Creation Records due to the difficulty and expense of working with Shields, a factor that was alleged to have contributed to the bankruptcy of the label. In the subsequent years, the group struggled to record a follow-up album and would eventually break up in 1997. Loveless would be their last full-length release for over two decades.

Since its release, Loveless has been widely proclaimed by critics as among the best albums of the 1990s, as a landmark work of the shoegazing genre, and as a significant influence on various subsequent artists. The album was reissued as a two-CD set on Sony in May 2012, containing remastered editions of the original digital tape and a previously unreleased ½-inch analogue tape. The reissues placed in several international charts and in July 2013, Loveless was certified Silver in the United Kingdom by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

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