The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

Sly Fox - yes good. We have it now. I was thinking a bit of 'Anything She Wants' - classic Whammery.

I love how ragged and fuzzed out a lot of Kev's guitar parts are, esp as interwoven w/ the comparatively manicured feedback/distortion of the Loveless-era 'glide-guitar style.' And the drums here have this murky wallop.. on some of the tracks, it's like like they're taken the flutter of ''To Here Knows When' or 'Swallow'" and anchored it in the sludgy, ragged low end of 'Slow' - all elements which existed already in their earlier music, and in combinations that seem almost haphazard at face value, but which reveal themselves to be deceptively synchronized as the songs swell, build & repeat.

^ really well put!
have still only heard thisonce but the pairings of glide guitar & soloing or playing melodic lines were really interesting. my fav thing on first listen was maybe those lil flicks that break up the guitar part on the first song.

really happy, really impressed. looking forward to processing this more.

this is really beautiful, like i actually teared up a little a minute in to the 1st track

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ha i burst out laughing (via emo) at about the same point

i love that this album came out at like 3am UK time

otm

i sensed a disturbance and woke up for no reason right when the site was launching

this really is blowing my mind right now. doesn't hurt that i'm really drunk. WOW!

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.

OTM

What's up mbv nerds

lol drum and bass

"Wonder 2" sounds noticeably better loud on headphones. gives you the full jet-taking-off effect.

so now that I know what the new MBV album sounds like, the question is what does the new MBV album sound like on weed? research is to commence forthwith.

lol sometimes I wish I liked weed. Now seems like it would be a good time.

last track rips your head off. there's nothing particularly pleasurable about it, apart from the insane novelty of how much is going on, and how much individually seems no more domineering than the other.

like loveless, my favorite parts of this are the end bits - ear-worms played ad infinitum, meditative pleasure.

just finished with my first listen. impressed more than i thought i ever would be.

i need a hit

what a great time to be alive

can't tell, music kinda sounds like shit on YouTube

last track rips your head off. there's nothing particularly pleasurable about it

see, i found that particular ripping-off-of-the-head effect to be totally thrilling!

Haven't listened to this through headphones yet. Will do tomorrow. Expect some revelations.

If you blew the cones in your speakers, yet insisted on playing Teenage Fanclub records through them at top volume, that might sound a lot like song #2.

omg @ synth refrain in the final stretch of 'in another way.' *floored*

Unexpected Demis Roussos vibe off penultimate track.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/SAM_0554_zps9e472780.jpg

Ready for the morning

There's a swooshing noise at 1'20" on only tomorrow, that can literally only have been made by a chinchilla gnawing through a guitar cable.

Ok - I can't go through the whole thread... have the ppl who've heard this actually BOUGHT it from the website or got it by other means? Cos I got as far as entering my card details but they can't be processed... Which is better than last night, but still.

Website's working just fine now... Although I used paypal.

^same here

Ok, I see a few ppl are having trouble with card payment. PayPal it is.

tho admittedly i'm distracted by the datedness of the Squarepusher drum track on Wonder 2, it certainly functions well to capture and escalate the incredible momentum of the song. in that respect, this situation reminds me of when Bark Psychosis dropped Codename: Dustsucker out of the blue & after a long and continuously stalled gestation period. They'd retooled and expanded their sound in engaging ways, but left a scattering of breakbeats intact that were basically the ghost of 1997.

but that's really my ONLY quip at this point - so far this record is the bees' knees.

I had no problem using a visa card.

I just feel sorry for Suede...

10am, Nov 11 1991, HMV Church Street, Liverpool. £6.99 for the LP. And now...this.

I just feel sorry for Suede...

― Doran

I heard D'angelo/Avalanches/Dr. Dre are all releasing comeback albums the same day Suede release theirs.

Album is fantastic and I say this as someone who really likes Loveless and Isn't Anything but doesn't quite love them like other people seem to. Just trying to decide which format to buy it on.

"I heard D'angelo/Avalanches/Dr. Dre are all releasing comeback albums the same day Suede release theirs."

Amazing. There's some dude called Lazarus is threatening to show his face as well.

Anyway, Ned Raggett (has a nice dinner with friends and then) ponders it all:

m b v track by track

will this be eligible for the regular album charts?

Probably

the sloooooow and steady melodic build & layers of fuzzed-out power chords of Only Tomorrow remind me of Raise-era Swervedriver - not at all a bad thing!

I might wait until it is available in the shops.

Actually, it's streaming on the Guardian's website.

Seems a bit ... nothing special, so far.

Just clicked this morning thinking 'why are there 400+ new posts?' there must be awesome lolz on this thread...to actually find a brand new rec is shocking.

Halfway through now..

i will be smoking a joint and listening to this later. wkd.

on 2nd listen now and its starting to sink in a bit. Loving it.

Yes very good. Feels like something old/something new.

hearing something new each time too

Loveless had shed loads of detail and hooks and songwriting that jumped at you from the first listen never mind the 10th.

Was listening to this and reading Ned's reaction piece. Like he says: no stopping of tracks, really sounds as if MBV really did this over a short period for the most part with perhaps finally working over some ideas they've spoken about in the past.

After who sees you I did find asking myself 'so what does pre-Isn't Anything? MBV material sounds like?'. As someone who loves all the EPs and the two albs I trusted people who said not to bother with anything before '87. WARNING SIGNS, right there.

Then as you move to the 2nd half you hear some more varied sonics and there are these 'we are not from mars really' vocal tics (which isn't bad at all, love the woooo in 'Only Tomorrow'), but it can't be said enough: this lacks enough hooks, songwriting and overload of detail.

Felt sad listening to Wonder 2: like here is the jungle stuff he talked about, and I wondered if he could have made more of it on more tracks (might have meant less Colm poor guy). It was always a myth anyway, nevertheless the gap adds a lot in your head and you have this fantasy that he went mad trying to re-create jungle (just as the thing was dying in the mid-90s) gave up and what you have is this remnant to mull over 15+ years later.

No track here besides Wonder 2 would make it as an MBV b-side from that period, never mind a track on Loveless.

Similarly I don't think any of this would break the top 10 on the 2013 tracks poll. Reckon the alb would make top 10 on enthusiasm I'm seeing here.

Having said all of this I'm glad that's all over with (lock thread etc). I do hope it was something recorded quickly to really just get it over with and that Shields et al. are on the first step to making something great in 18 months.

when does the backlash start?

Ned started it, not me.