Maybe. Probably. Perhaps. Could be. The Daily Swarm certainly seems to think so, having viewed an advance copy of an interview (debuts this Monday) with MBV frontman Kevin Shields for Ian Svenonius’ Soft Focus webcast, wherein Shields suggests that a buncha stuff from the My Bloody Vault is being dusted off and gussied up for a forthcoming album, which would become the Agonizingly Awaited Follow-Up To Loveless by default.
While Shields claims a My Bloody Valentine album is due this year, he gives no indication of exactly when or how it will be released. When the group split up in 1995 they had already left Creation Records and signed a legendarily ill-fated deal with Island, but it is unlikely that the contract remains in effect after all this time. The band recently activated mybloodyvalentine.co.uk and Shields’ manager confirmed the the site is being built by Debbie Goodge, the band’s bass player. It is possible that the album will see an independent, Internet-only. Radiohead style release, and a release date could be announced at any time.
Skeptical? Little old us? Still? After having our previous skepticism publically poo-pooed? With Shields captured on film like the scared groundhog he is? Maybe a smidge, having spent a decade-and-a-half listening to Shields claim the new My Bloody Valentine record was right around the corner. (Plus the fact that the “new” record is described as a cobbled-together collection of “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” with no mention of who was involved, even if the intimation is that it was the full band.) Now no one, except perhaps a certain Idolator commenter, would love MBV to be back in the saddle more than us, and so we’ll happily eat our words should these lost tapes materialize in a form we can actually pay for. But once 800 times bitten…
My Bloody Valentine: The Reunion Confirmed [The Daily Swarm]
except perhaps a certain Idolator commenter
Can’t imagine who.
I’m sure that (as per Shields’s earlier statements) this album (which sounds like an odds and sods clusterfuck on paper)will be as good as “Loveless.”
@Ned Raggett: Took you thirty-one minutes! That’s way off your average.
Having waited 16 years for this, I now feel old.
I interviewed him in 1996 at my college radio station, and he swore that we would have a new record by the end of the year. At the time, he claimed they had scrapped three records already. One of them was jungle-influenced. Yeowch!
This is what was so brilliant about Radiohead posting “In Rainbows” online… now anytime a band is considered internet distribution, the story will be appended with the phrase “Radiohead-style release.” That’s just good marketing.
Thom Yorke is probably hoping it catches on as a google-esque verb…
“My Bloody Valentine may radiohead their long-awaited new album.”
@Lucas Jensen: Wait a minute, Lucas, are you me?
@lastclearchance: Even I have to work sometimes.
I have listened to “loveless” many times and, well, i just don’t get it. I have read countless words on how groundbreaking this band is, how important they are, and how good they are, but i just don’t hear it. Maybe it’s because i have/had already heard all the bands influenced by them, who do what MBV originated, only slightly better?
This also happened when I recently heard Joy Division for the first time, and honestly thought, “wow, they really are just like Interpol– only not as good.”
The Writers Guild of America created a YouTube channel. Those silly folks at The Office posted a pretty funny video here. It’s the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Thriller and Mr. Jackson himself tells Ebony magazine Tchaikovsky was his biggest influence.
I know I’m not the first one to think this, but I will potentially
be the first one on Idolator to say it: Get ready for MBV to headline
Coachella.
@extracrispy: And the worst part is that Radiohead wasn’t even the first on the free digital distribution scene. I mean, when is Tim Fite going to get the credit he deserves? Ca-ca-ca-camouflage, it’s HOT this season.
@Ned Raggett: We were probably part of the same interview train. Amazing. My DAT tape tore up, so it is gone forever. Except up here.
I want this record so badly I’d cut my dick off and bludgeon Aquemini with it! Figuratively speaking, of course.
@Lucas Jensen: Wish I could find my own tape copy of that interview. Gotta be around SOMEWHERE.
i am so psyched to watch that interview
ian svenonius + kevin shields = awesome