New MBV Album?

Reminds me I should rejoin the mailing list. And no, I have no news...

Who's to say this hasn't already happened?

Sorry, you were saying?

only if it's connected to a Jaguar or Jazzmaster!

as for me, my fingers have been crossed really goddamn tight ever since i first heard loveless in '96.

Oh yeah. Damn, forgot about that. I stand corrected. He'd do well to do more work with Curve, or maybe join up with Death in Vegas, since it seems he's lost his confidence when it comes to penning new tunes himself... I guess drugs'll do that. Do tell me he's not on Scorpio Rising as well. Anyway, Scorpio is the best Loveless-inspired album I've heard in a long time. None of the pretention of that Guitar album; just subtle drones and sublime humming with some scuzzy rock thrown in for good measure.

Kevin Shields produces The Beatings

Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream has struck up a deal with new band The Beatings.

Kevin recently helped out the band by producing their single 'Bad Feeling' in exchange for the band building him a new studio. The single gained single of the week in both NME and Kerrang. The Beatings met whilst bulding studio sets for a living so had no trouble helping Kevin out.

hmm.. new studio...

Maybe they meant to write "in exchange for the band building him a cake".

Kevin Shields... The Jim Brown of Shoegazer.

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UH

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/46962-new-my-bloody-valentine-album-due-this-year

"We were making a record in the 90s, around when the band broke up in 1995...and I continued with Bilinda [Butcher, guitarist/vocalist]. We kinda made...most of an album...

"It's going to be this 96/97 record half-finished record finished, and then a compilation of stuff we did before that in 1993–94, and a little bit of new stuff.

"I pretty much know what the one that's going to come out this year is going to sound like because it's already pretty much three-quarters done already...it sounds like what we sounded like-- different but not radically different. People will go, 'Yeah, it sounds like My Bloody Valentine.'"

I'll see it when I believe it.

uh. don't you mean...the other way around, ned?

Ned's lack of faith has been the only thing keeping the world from new MBV for the last decade and a half. For shame, Ned, for shame.

Oh my crocodile tears.

(i can't believe it) until i see it

i can see it but i can't feel it

oh

*oooh ooooh*

is this kinda like "The Neverending Story" where Ned has to name the new My Bloody Valentine record for it to come into existence?

If I had that power, life would be an interesting thing.

It will be nice for all this stuff to finally surface one way or another.

so, Kevin refers to "the one that's going to come out this year" - emphasis mine, but note his wording. does that mean, basically, that the "new" old stuff is coming out first, and the *real* new album is yet to come?

Is there much else of value in the article? I can't get Pitchfork to load for some reason. Must be all the MBV fan traffic!

Here's the full article:

Looks like this Kevin Shields fellow is a man of his word, huh? In the January/February 2007 issue of Magnet magazine, as previously reported, Shields promised that some band he's part of called My Bloody Valentine were "100% going to make another...record unless we die or something."

Today comes word that Shields wasn't just pulling our whammy bars, as the Vice-associated (UPDATE: Not associated, just good friends) Daily Swarm has revealed bits from a interview with Shields-- set to air on a forthcoming episode of Vice's vbs.tv program "Soft Focus"-- in which the shoegaze godfather and fanclub president* confirms that the new album is being made, and what's more, it's supposed to come out this year.

Speaking to "Soft Focus" host and DC scene mainstay Ian Svenonius, here's Kevin: "We were making a record in the 90s, around when the band broke up in 1995...and I continued with Bilinda [Butcher, guitarist/vocalist]. We kinda made...most of an album...

"[The new album is] going to be this 96/97 half-finished record finished, and then a compilation of stuff we did before that in 1993–94, and a little bit of new stuff.

"I pretty much know what the one that's going to come out this year is going to sound like because it's already pretty much three-quarters done already...it sounds like what we sounded like-- different but not radically different. People will go, 'Yeah, it sounds like My Bloody Valentine.'"

That is, one presumes, after people catch their breath and pick their melted minds up off the floor.

Until the full interview airs on November 12, that's really all we have to go off. So what did we learn today? That My Bloody Valentine are indeed back together in some configuration or another. That they've recorded new material. That they have at least two releases on the way, one of which may very well come out this year. And, last but not least, that Loveless has a follow-up and IT WILL SOON TOUCH THE EARS OF HUMANKIND.

Wooooooooooooo!

Oh yeah, no word yet on all that reunion tour chatter, but consider this-- along with the reactivated MBV website-- a very good sign.

* this scene celebrates itself, recall

but will it be as good as the brother kite's new record??

http://www.abc.net.au/tropic/stories/Talk_to_th_m1190886.jpg

what's with homeboy's ring?

More here:

The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

what about the return of rollerskate skinny?