The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

hey guys i just woke up, what did i miss?

man the last third or so of "new you"

Floored on first listen

cried a couple times during this. amazing.

This will sound very 20th century, but: will I be able to buy this in a store in the US?

just speaking generally btw, the second side of this is nuts, huh. there are weird moments on the first - that whole rewind ending!, & the sorta touched analogue w/keyboards & bilinda, but it's crazy hearing it go into such specific for want of a less loaded word experimental territory half way through

i think this record is a bit weaker melodically than loveless but i think the sound is superior. this is not a weedy album

Pretty different from Loveless. Less pure and beatific, more... I dunno... humor? Like a number of songs have this bouncy guitar effect.

cried a couple times during this. amazing.

― Chris S, Sunday, 3 February 2013 04:36 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kill yourself.

dude chill

i think this record is a bit weaker melodically than loveless but i think the sound is superior. this is not a weedy album

― djembe v (electricsound), Sunday, February 3, 2013 12:38 AM (38 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can't quite bring myself to argue about stuff yet but i think choosing a superior sound is pretty difficult - there are a couple of things you can pitch against each other to see how they're handled differently, ie the songs in which bilinda harmonises with herself; on blown a wish that's a very interwoven kinda gestalt, totally meshed with the instruments, & i think the strands are more separate on this record. instrumentally it's more adventurous & vocally slightly less i think?

Wtf @ thomp

instrumentally it's more adventurous & vocally slightly less i think?

yeah i'd go along with that

thomp is a self-proclaimed slayer of sacred cows.

Holy shit this album. I wasnt expecting to react to hearing new stuff from them like I feel right now.

thomp - please go take your meds

Jim otm about it not being weedy - this sound packs a punch. Theres clarity, its not as soupy as Loveless. And I like that.

This isn't making me cry. I've not gotten any chills. But I'm not gonna blast people who are reacting that way. MBV has never resided in my personal music hierarchy, even though I do like them a great deal. Hearing this is fun for me. For someone else, it might be a spiritual experience. Ain't here to judge friends right now.

i love when tom petty sounds like tom petty too. they're good at it. mbv and tom petty.

Yeah, after having just finished my first listen, LBI's comment upthread that they could have released this in 1994.. seems OTM. But I have absolutely no problem with that. The continuity of aesthetic in this case seems more on par w/ recent rDinosaur Jr, Mission of Burma & Guided By Voices material than, say, the radical advancement of Portishead after being dormant so long. But that is OK by me b/c those new DJ, MoB & GBV records are aging nicely w/ respect to those bands' 'classic records' & I'm guessing the same can/will be said about this album in time.

when i was listening i was kinda impatient to know the songs a little better; when i think of the other records there are so many phrases & parts that are like punctums, where bilinda's singing sorta rises above the song or where there's a line sung that you know & remember. i think the singing feels less anchored to the songs (maybe like, less melodic, like somebody said) on this record but it'll be really nice to know where they're going inside out & zoom in a little closer to what's happening. i listened on headphones & am looking forward to having it playing in the corner or while i go to sleep (though: it kinda goes in the wrong direction volume-wise for that, though i guess that was true of isn't anything, too, without it stopping it being one of the great zone-into-sleep records)

this is pretty whatever, but i also don't want anyone to kill themselves because they like it.

Have you cried in front of a painting ?

huh, https://twitter.com/theofficialmbv

I kinda want to buy the vinyl just because of the all analog process, which I'm assuming means it was done at abbey road like a lot of the stuff albini sends there

may be very MBV-sounding but it gets surprisingly inventive even coming from that familiar palette, seemingly through Kevin just willing these really odd shapes/jolting directions up from it

Lmao I just got an email from that dumb radiohead w.a.s.t.e. thing at 8:49 PM plugging atoms for peace, guess thom needs attention

I would have been v disapointed with a soupy shoegazey LovelessII tbh.

Thom Yorke is like a Kardashian now.

Reminds me of listening to Third for the first time. Which is a fantastic feeling.

Btw I love that this thread was started ten years ago.

Well....I suppose it's time to tell you *rips off mask*....I'm Kevin Shields...Mr. Raggett, I do hope you've enjoyed this little game of ours, now I'm afraid it's time to for you to die

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who sees you and in another way are so great!

It was all just a plan to get Ned's twitter account suspended.

HI ALL.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS BUT I HAVE A PROJECT CALLED
ATOMS FOR PEACE.

[...]

IT'S A MIXTURE OF LIVE AND MACHINE, I GUESS.

....AND FLEA

Holy shit, "nothing is" is such a drone jam!

Was NOT expecting that at all. blimey.

Want to buy this SO BAD

I would have been v disapointed with a soupy shoegazey LovelessII tbh.

yeah, this is less soupy and fuzzed and more... lurching and deep?

the lower end makes me think of gnarled roots pushing through huge bodies of clay or something

New You is Wham.

It has a lot of really visceral sounds yeah.

no better way to lose your hearing

blimey. I feel like I need a cig after that last track. Phew.

They are going to kill it live in 2 weeks. I am so excite.

No. I mean messrs Michael and Ridgely - Wham. Probably just me.

"new you" is inxs

in another way live is going to shred everything.

Man whatever people make shoegaze all the time they did before "Loveless" they will after this. They make pizza outside of New York City too, but I know if I ever want a REAL pizza, I have to go to NYC.

MBV is not about murky soup it's about a perfectly arranged soup with the exact right amount of ingredients.