Here's a
Christmas surprise:
My
Bloody Valentine announced recently on their Facebook page, "On 21-12-12 we
finished mastering the new album!" So even if the world didn't end that
day, something pretty momentous happened.
We still
don't have any release information about the full-length follow to MBV's 1991
shoegaze masterpiece, Loveless.
As Kevin Shields recently told NME, the record will apparently be
released via
the MBV website, followed by an EP of new recordings next
year. Shields said the new record "really frees us up, and in
the bigger picture it's 100% necessary."
"People
who like us will immediately connect with something," he told NME.
"Based on the very, very few people who've heard stuff-- some engineers,
the band, and that's about it-- some people think it's stranger than Loveless.
I don't."
As bassist Debbie Googe told Drowned in Sound, Shields
plays most of the music on the album himself. "Most of it is
stuff Kevin has done, certainly guitar wise. It's been a long process, you
know," she said. "The drums have been added then taken off at least
once. His brother did them at one point, then Colm [O'Ciosoig] came in and
redid them. There's some things Kevin can't do, like the drums or Bilinda
[Butcher]'s vocals, but everything else he can, and I'm certainly happy for him
to do that."
In April, Shields spoke with Pitchfork about MBV's recent reissues. Of the new LP, he said:
"I'm just
finishing a record that I had started in the 90s. It was going to be, like, the
next record. But it was already after the band had half split up, and me and
Bilinda [Butcher] were left. Then we got back together. I've always said that
we were going to make a record again. You never know, we might finish it really
quickly, and it might be up in a few months! I tend to work really quickly,
suddenly, and I might be willing to do that right now. We'll see!"
(Taken from Pitchfork)
(Taken from Pitchfork)
