The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

"wow, these folks are onto something here"

es it mean you think it's great? good? ok?

"inspired" is probably what was meant

the year of mbv v gbv

don't forget rftc

now is boc going to have a new one this year or what

twimc, i started a thread on only tomorrow, my fave song from mbv. any thoughts about it?

i always thought the mbv arkestra was one of the best things he ever did. i haven't listened to it for years but the horn loop at the end is so incredible.

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And that crunching riff ~ 4mins, just this curled up thing that he zig-zags with those blasted horns, working higher and higher...

It's lovely that it sounds so much like them. That sounds daft but I mean, well, on first listening all those gorgeous guitar tones are there. I stood up and clapped when that ELEPHANT noise they do came in half way through the record.

This is odd. I hope after all the excitement we don't come back in 18 months and say LOOL this was a 6/10 at best.

For the record this is a 6/10 at best and i was here first.

kind of like being the first guy to jump into the hole in the outhouse

I'd give it 8/10 which is after half a dozen listens

it will be better than 99% of all albums released this year.

i assume this has been posted, but the band uploaded all the songs to youtube

http://pitchfork.com/news/49344-my-bloody-valentine-share-new-album-mbv-site-crashes-check-out-cover-art-and-tracklist-now/

i didnt wait for another MBV album (although i love "Loveless") and after first listen it sounds like... nothing special really. if it was an album released by a new band i wouldnt even bother to give it a second try.

curious to release this the night before the superbowl

?? Do you think Kevin Shields gave American Football a second thought?

Am I missing sarcasm on the internet here?

no, but beyonce is performing tonight...

rumor has it dylan's replacing her

http://www.avclub.com/articles/bob-dylan-replaces-beyonce-as-super-bowl-halftime,91770/

makes u think

What a day for Editions Mego to announce the release of a new Main album

nd after first listen it sounds like... nothing special really. if it was an album released by a new band i wouldnt even bother to give it a second try.

challenging opinions 2013

I don't entirely disagree with afb there.

challenging opinions about people being whelmed-to-underwhelmed by the new mbv album

Well, I wouldn't go as far as afb did but I'm pretty lukewarm, except for a couple of tracks. The tunes don't grab me as much, for the most part, and they don't seem to have added all that much to their sonic palette.

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in terms of unexpected updates from the standout figures of 1991, it's better than the paul gascoigne news

their sonic palette

which is more limited in my eyes than I think it is in most posters'.

otoh, the sonic palate has greatly expanded; really enjoying the footlong quarter pound coney dog

Whole album is murky and soupy. Won't be revisiting.

mmm soup

Will it be possible to buy this not directly from the band?

can't to hear this on vinyl. bet it'll sound as glorious as bish bosch

They've been singing about soup since Lose My Broth tbh

You Made Me Bouillabaise

Only Shallots

Chowder EP

Soon (Tofu)

Several Girls Goulash

Feed Me With Your Bisque

I weirdly think a lot of these songs sound like Blur
The production is too nice and crisp for me to feel like I'm plunging into another world, but I like it fine!

Nearly 24 hours later since it landed. It was around 4am here when I got through on the website last night, and listened till 6am, bewildered, enticed, ecstatic for all the right reasons, and I fell asleep blissfully. Headache all day today but I won't blame MBV for that.

I've read the debate regarding first impressions, quick reviews, with interest. MBV are my favourite band by far, I waited for this album more than half of my life-time, like so many of us. I think it is nigh on impossible to not have some sort of reaction to it when you are in that position. When the whole body and mind wants to shout the excitement from the rooftops. It's a natural reaction I refuse to be cynical about. This goes for the 'track by track first impression' pieces too: it comes from love for music. And I don't think it will necessarily influence the discourse about the album in a negative way either.

I am not going to volunteer at my music website to review it, something I definiteky would have done in the past (lol old people). I just enjoy enjoying the fuck out of this for now, I like reading the various track by track reviews (like Ned's excellent Quietus piece), but will be cocooning with this album for a long time.

Perhaps it is not needing to have an opinion about this for a website/audience/media that feels liberating for once.

nothing is . . .

The Third Eye Foundation references are spot on imho, in 'in another way' but mostly in the closer. Harsher beats, which somehow remind me of Portishead's 'Third'. Which makes it full circle in a Bristol kind of way.

My Bloody Mary For When I Have A really Bad Hangover from Drinking too Much Ballantine

Fuck I Meant BAlltine's with the apostrophe s I Messed up the joke Sorry everybody

Goddammnit

I am never listening to this band Ever again

shame on you

what the hell man get it together

I'm not reviewing either - maybe close to year's end.

i've also decided not to review it. i love them too much, it would be terribly biased