The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

I've only listened to it once and I like it (apart from 'nothing is').

― A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, February 4, 2013 4:07 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've seen a few people get a bit down on that track, even going as far as calling it 'filler'. Personally, I find the pounding, relentless momentum of it very exciting.

I like it too. It works well leading into Wonder 2.

And after whatever comes before it... that really good one. I forget what it's called.

I love how experimental this record is. Like, I want to see chord progression charts for these songs, they would probably make no sense at all.

Really? Aside from "In another way" it sounds straight forward to me.
This record sounds great when played next to the Tremolo EP imo

"Nothing is" repeats every 28 measures (you can tell, there's a guitar flub)

so we've got the loveless outtakes collection now, when's this new album out

My only beef is if they wait as long again to put out another record I'll be almost 60.

Late to the party as usual, downloaded last night and played twice today. It sounds like MBV, what's the problem? I do think there's too many mid tempo songs at the start of the album, but the tempos generally speed up as it progresses, and the volume increases too. As someone else has said it makes a good follow up to the "Tremelo" EP, seeing as "Loveless" seemed to step back from the brink of experimentation of that EP. I enjoyed it more the second time, and I think I'll enjoy it more each time I listen. It won't gain them any new fans, but existing fans should be pleased with it.

And trying to have a discussion about the band and new album with my wife while also trying to discourage my 6 yr old son from saying the word "Bloody" because it's "a rude word" is bloody difficult. :)

m b v

they considered you and your son in advance, just call them m b v!

We did in the end.

Anybody else hearing a lil' bit of Deerhoof in the vocals of "In Another Way"??

Really? Aside from "In another way" it sounds straight forward to me.

To me as well, but I only listened once or twice to the Youtubes. I think I'd find it more interesting if I noticed unusual harmonic progressions. Where are you hearing these?

nothing is = techno?

nothing is = industrial skiffle

it's the midpoint between Lonnie Donegan and the Young Gods

there's one track on this that totally steals the guitar sound from Can's 'I Want More' amirite?

i think i mean the song 'new you'

it's kind of bo diddley in space

"Is This and Yes" is a pretty weird progression. "In Another Way" has kind of a weird progression. At the very least those bagpipe guitars are some abrasive and non-straightforward stuff. I don't know, maybe it's just all the arrangements that gave me that impression. Just feels alot more chaotic than "Loveless" to me.

Bo Diddley in space yeah. Last night on headphones i was getting a "2001: Space Odyssey" done by Noise Disney.

Like, "New You" is cool, it's definitely got a Stereolab vibe for a bit. Maybe it's not that adventurous of a song but it's just great to hear this band again. Check out how the guitar tremelo is perfectly lined up with the drums. Is there only one guitar there? I love the looping of her vocals at the end, especially that little bit at the end of the phrase where she sings "do do do" a little slower and it almost cuts off and then the loop just starts back up again. SO GREAT!

"Nothing Is" is fucking awesome. This is what i mean by experimental. They could have done with a more straight-ahead krautrock beat rather than this bizarre two-step which is kind of just whipping around the rhythm. Feel like I heard there was gonna be this cool noise band playing a house show and I show up and the lights are all off and everyone is standing around getting wasted in the dark watching as Kevin turns on a strobe light and maybe a noise TV and then starts punching up this stuff on a sampler.

I feel like the craft of making this record really shows throughout. It's as much about making the record as the record itself.

AV Club gives it an 'A' http://www.avclub.com/articles/my-bloody-valentine-mbv,91978/?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=feeds&utm_source=avclub_rss_daily

'A-'

About the chord progressions: I hear a lot of sus4 (and possibly 7sus4) type-chords, specifically New You, but also in a lot of the other songs.

On another note: loving this record from start to finish.

DJ at Bush Tetras show last night was playing this in between bands. Sounded fantastic loud.

"If anything, it takes the pulped angel corpse that is Loveless and feeds it back into the machine for one more spin around the macrocosm."

good album

Industrial skiffle otm, and I tried to think of something to say about the harmonic choices that wouldn't turn into "The Driest Post On ILM" but I couldn't so nm

I don't usually expect much from the AV club music crits, but that is a pretty decent review.

xps

beginning my first listen now

excited!

I was pretty disappointed in some of the production choices at first but it's grown on me. I'd still like to hear more rhythm section and a little less control in places. If "In Another Way" was a hair more chaotic it might be one of my songs of the year.
One thing I've noticed (and I think this was mentioned upthread - It's not a recording for headphones. It needs actual physical space for context. I have expensive in-ears I invested in (so it's not a frequency range thing) which were how I chose to listen to the record for most of yesterday, Only when I played it on speakers a few times did I really start to feel an affinity for it.

i dunno - I've been listening to it on a big, bulky pair of Sennheiser NC cans & it sounds pretty fucking great!

It could be personal taste. It sounds overly claustrophobic in headphones to me. All close mic'd / DI'd. There's not much air in the recording.

Yeah, i was sitting there with the headphone on and it sounded great. Then every so often i would be "Aw, he should have mixed the drums louder here" and then i realized this dude probably mixed this a hundred different ways and this end result is _the way it is supposed to sound_. The drums are supposed to slip into the distance. Stuff is supposed to blend together.

Maybe if "Loveless" came out now there would be complaints "WTF this guy doesn't know how to mix, how come i can't hear what they're singing?"

haha, pretty sure the reaction back in 1991 was similar

"the tape is warped!"

I like to imagine there are a few songs on here where there were 30+ tracks of guitar and this year he just decided to wipe them all and do the solo with a single noise guitar sound that has been perfected over 20 years.

this is wonderful so far

One thing I've noticed (and I think this was mentioned upthread - It's not a recording for headphones. It needs actual physical space for context

what? it sounds great on headphones!

I don't think sounding good on speakers means an album is not a recording for headphones

Yup, I've listened to this solely on headphones and I've no complaints at all.

last three tracks specifically benefit from headphones imo

It's not a recording for headphones. It needs actual physical space for context

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/04/repetition-is-a-form-of-change-my-bloody-valentine-loveless-and-what-to-make-of-mbv-after-less-than-48-hours/

I'm waiting with baited breath to play the CD through my proper speakers.