There was some teeth to Kevin Shields’s promises after all: Tonight, My Bloody Valentine unleash their first new album in over 20 years, the followup to 1991′s seminal shoegazer masterpiece Loveless.
They posted to Facebook (it is fun to visualize them crowding around a MacBook to post): “The album is now live on www.mybloodyvalentine.org.” The servers are slammed to the point of paralysis — we’ve waited 21 years, and according to their error message we still haven’t earned the “credentials” to access it — but we can share this much: It’s called m b v. And it actually exists. For now, feel free to liveblog your listening experience, family-style, and stoke the envy of everyone getting that 403 error. By Monday, we’ll dig in together. New MBV album is here! 2013 we did it y’all.
UPDATE: Some details…
TRACKLIST
1. “she found now”
2. “only tomorrow”
3. “who sees you”
4. “is this and yes”
5. “if i am”
6. “new you”
7. “in another way”
8. “nothing is”
9. “wonder 2″The album is available in three formats:
180 gram vinyl + CD + digital download of your choice
CD + digital download of your choice
digital download of your choiceThe digital download will be available in the following file types:
16bit 44.1 K WAV file (cd quality)
320kbps MP3
24bit 96 K WAV fileThe price of the digital download only is the same regardless of the file quality and size.
The vinyl has been recorded, mixed and mastered in analogue. It is manufactured on 180 gram vinyl and comes in a gatefold sleeve with the CD in a card wallet. The vinyl will be limited due to manufacturing restrictions.
The CD comes in a gatefold card sleeve.
The vinyl and CD artwork is currently being finished and each format will have slightly different but similar artwork to the download artwork that will be attached to your download.
UPDATE: Stream the album below.
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Loveless was the entry point for many listeners to MBV and shoegaze in general. With m b v, things are totally different. Lots of fans had more than 20 years to digest their sound.
“Only Tomorrow”alone is worth the wait – god, what a great song
But really, the whole album is sounding great to me now.
still can’t get my head around ‘nothing is’, but maybe i do need to hear it on vinyl.. aside from that i’m head over heels with this album already
I know this would be kind of breaking the fourth wall, but can we get some preliminary knee-jerk reactions from the Stereogum writing staff? I’ll take morsels….
Saw something in my RSS but the post wasn’t up yet. It is coming, but I have to say that it maybe is too much nostalgia (read it and let me know what you think). Nostalgia is OK for me in the comments, but I’d like to see someone write about the album without hitting all the Behind the Music points and press materials and whatever.
Well, now that you guys love some shoegaze and some interesting stuffs, seek out Horsedrawn Wishes by Rollerskate Skinny, a pretty much forgotten 1996 album that is extremely good (Kevin Shield’s little brother was in that band).
I will be listening to m b v when I have some time, or maybe I will wait for the vinyl or cd to come just to be old school about it. I can’t quite say if I would be happier to have this album have come out in 1993 or to have been able to see JAMC/Curve/Spiritualized at St. Andrews around that time. I still remember I think the last time I heard “Only Shallow” on the actual radio. Couldn’t turn it up loud enough.
Yes, it is my third favorite album of all time, and I will never understand how it has never gotten the attention it deserves. It truly is a masterpiece that rivals loveless, which I would say is only a hair better than Horsedrawn Wishes. Anyone interested in Rollerskate Skinny should check out what Ken Griffin has to say about his life as a musician over at his current band’s site: http://favouritesons.com/test/the-long-story/ I always thought it was kind of funny that Jimi Shields got kicked out of the band before Horsedrawn Wishes was made. It has been a constant annoyance to Ken Griffin that everyone seems to think that because they were a shoegaze band that Kevin’s brother had to have played some key role in the songwriting.
This is a little bit my feeling of the retroactive influence Loveless has supposedly had, and we’ll see about if the m b v album of the week gets posted. Of course they were a touchstone for a lot of bands, and maybe some people say stuff like that thinking back, but it sounds like they are “printing the legend”- maybe Bob Mould did say that Sugar was influenced by MBV (see album of the week post when it goes up), but if MBV didn’t exist, Jesus and Mary Chain already had, and I suspect there were a lot of other bands as well- none of them put it together the same way. There are just some bands that get talked about in hushed, yet excited reverential whispers that I think goes beyond the music. The albums become like musical saints. I’m not necessarily arguing against it, but they get treated like these treasured relics, when they are just albums, and it is not clear that they should be universally loved, only because people have different tastes. I think my point is that the difference between a universally acclaimed album and an almost universally forgotten one might not be that much, and I would almost like to hear more about forgotten albums where people might be going out on a limb to recommend them. I’d love for some anniversary stories on the ;Gum for some personal faves that are not in the canon.
That story was great- thanks a lot! What is your second fave album or first (the one not Loveless)?
My top two has long been Lift to Experience’s The Texas Jerusalem-Crossroads and mbv’s loveless. Those two switch spots in my head a lot. I would say the Lift to Experience album is probably at #1 a little more often. They are equally great though and for different reasons. If you or someone else reading this hasn’t heard the Lift album, it’s also shoegaze but it’s produced quite differently from loveless. The vocals and other instruments are higher in the mix than on loveless. There’s a bit of Texas twang in there, and oh yeah, it’s a 78-minute concept album about the Christian apocalypse where Texas is the Promised Land. It is probably the most cinematic album I own. If your listening is in any way interrupted or you don’t have it up loud enough, your experience of the album will suffer. They weren’t right-wing nuts or anything, in case anyone is wondering, but they were 100% sincere about the spiritual beliefs that inspired the album’s story. The point was never to convert anyone, but I think some American indie kids just assumed it was, which didn’t help their popularity here. They were signed to Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union label. John Peel and Kevin Shields were also fans of theirs. The Lift to Experience show Kevin Shields attended made such an impression on him that seven years later he asked Josh Pearson, the band’s songwriter/guitarist/singer to open for mbv when they toured in 2009.
Thanks, Michael H. Appreciate hearing about this- I just have been listening to Horsedrawn Wishes since your comment responding to mine. I am so convinced it would blow some people’s mind on this board. Maybe they’ve all heard it, but the ones that haven’t, the closest I can explain this would be: an post-showgaze album in the idiom of MBV+Swervedriver+Brian Wilson+embryonic Animal Collective. And I think the first song is the worst or maybe most dated track (still good). I can’t really tell people how phenomenal it is. I will admit that I bought it in 1996 for Swab the Temple and Speed to My Side, and then it ended on the shelf for 18 years without the real attention it deserved, and I ripped it one night feeling nostalgic and was just totally floored.
Well, now that I no longer have to endure the anticipation of waiting to hear the latest from MBV, all my anxious energy is now focused on the following: Can Michael_ achieve the impossible and land a clean sweep of the Lowest Rated Comments?
on the count of three, everyone focus their anxious energy on Michael_! Let’s see if he can feel it.
I’m sick of using the words “nothing is is”, both spoken and in print.
For my money, nothing is is as good as is this and yes. I left the quotation marks out of that sentence just to make it extra confusing.
Why do people jizz all over Third? I never got that.
That record is a total bore and her lyrics are trite as fuck.
Isn’t Anything is way better than Loveless too
FUCK THIS SITE GO READ BUDDYHEAD
http://www.buddyhead.com/2013/02/09/buddyheads-unnecessary-guide-to-the-grammys-2013/