The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

yes

but that blue is a little too blue if you know what i mean. at least they could have used a paler or darker blue but not the most standard, canonic, unimaginative blue around.

Maybe it is International Klein Blue.

I like that it's a deep, deep blue. I know this probably wasn't the intention, but my first thought when I saw the blue cover was that typically in developing languages the first color words to be produced are contrasting words for light/white and dark/black, followed closely by a word for red; a word for blue comes much later. Thus we have the covers for Isn't Anything, Loveless, and mbv. Sorry I know this thread is dorked-out enough.

not ikb at all.

Whoa

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Oh shit there's a new Fall Out Boy single?!?!? Thanks ilm.

xp http://img-cache.cdn.gaiaonline.com/e026478f545ccdeb003f10bf4811c3e2/http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/uu106/johnnynoxvill1593/6483Spongebob_smoking_Weed.jpg

Went to the youtube full album trove to get a bead on the number of plays but this shit has been WEB SHERIFFED

You guys have seen this detail of the cover right?

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/images/uploads/mbv970600.jpg

nothing is this and yes i really love you

feel like this cover will be a lot cooler on the vinyl

oh yeah, you won't be able to see half that shit on the cd either

but my first thought when I saw the blue cover was that typically in developing languages the first color words to be produced are contrasting words for light/white and dark/black, followed closely by a word for red; a word for blue comes much later. Thus we have the covers for Isn't Anything, Loveless, and mbv. Sorry I know this thread is dorked-out enough.

You nerd <3

ok, now everybody seems to be enjoying the new album. great.

There really isn't much to see pixel-peeping at the 2400x2400 jpeg (looking at the blue channel only, enhancing contrast). All the members of the band, a studio with A1 sized prints of brick walls taped to the walls, a few shots through the window of a mediterranean tiled roofs. The cover of the You Made Me Realize EP appears on the left margin.

http://i50.tinypic.com/2v3r9c2.jpg

I'm not seeing any hidden messages. Just pictures pinned to white walls, rephotographed and overlayed as semi transparent layers in 'shop, rendered at max saturation in hue 238.

oh shit yes

just burned a disc of the mp3s, should be interesting to hear it tonight on my stereo

I think there are a lot of low quality jpgs of the cover floating around, it looks much better crisp.

Are there any stray mp3s out on blogs?

This is getting better the more I hear it, although the three tracks that stood way out on first listen (2, 7, 9) still stand way out, maybe even wayer

See whereas I hear the album as in 3 clear "acts" (which I think I touched on in my blogpost thingy)

just put this on my iPhone :D

This thread is so much fun to read from the beginning

hah thanks for making me re-read my account of the nyc shows from '08

"who sees you" has so much in common with "only shallow". the initial drums start-ups, the squealing elephant guitars. those last 3 minutes are occasionally cathartic, whereas i always felt "only shallow" was a novel song but one of my least listened to as it treats those said elephant squeals as having no real emotional basis but rather something to set the listener's head off in surprise with. "who sees you" i wish were longer, with that high-note held in perpetual motion, allowed to ring endlessly.

also worth noting that this album has had me access itunes for the first time in what feels like a year since signing up for spotify premium

quick thought: feels like "nothing is" was created solely for the live performances. i imagine KS adores the idea of killing his audience with love, but after so many holocaust sections he naturally is tired of going through the ordeal each and every show. as such "nothing is" is a song that is underscored right now but will be met with a huge amount of masochistic fanfare come touring. in sense filler, but only in this immediate environment. we forget that MBV is as much a ear-bursting live experience as they are suitable for solitary headphone confinement.

By the way here's the whole album cover cleaned up (as above) for inspection.

Still have the audiophile earplugs I bought after the '92 Houston show left my ears ringing for two days.

Oooh, Amoeba Music t-shirt

"Is This and Yes" is a pretty weird progression. "In Another Way" has kind of a weird progression.

Hearing that.

I just heard much of this in a pub just now, remarkable how warm and fuzzy it is, even the Stereolab-y track sounded like comfort food. We were wondering if the lack of top end was a product of long days in studio, rolling it off as your ears get tired. Or maybe he mixed it in a pub. Either way: good pub record

also worth noting that this album has had me access itunes for the first time in what feels like a year since signing up for spotify premium

― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:21 (44 minutes ago)

Or maybe you don't mean you went to the iTunes store, you mean you used the program called iTunes.

Sorry, meant itunes the application. I also kinda assumed we had all come to equal consensus that the store, like the program, were dead things.

goontie: yeah comfort food is what i thought partic with the first three tracks, I called it "mashed potatoes"!

rejected cover:

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTutTXBZ8Xcjfpzz60lOLp1xVdEXoszEXimAnh3QEd6dE5TnW82wg

https://twitter.com/brandonstosuy/status/298104192642461696

lol barf

headphones + weed

am3n

also worth noting that this album has had me access itunes for the first time in what feels like a year since signing up for spotify premium

― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 04:21 (44 minutes ago)

Exact same for me. Although the process for getting it on there was torturous and resulted in itunes deleting all the music I had on already. Oh well, what other music matters right now?

The first three tracks are probably the weakest, they mostly sound like Loveless but not as good. I'm not sure quite what I expected after 22 years but it wasn't really a retreat into comfort zone. It really takes off after that though and the second half is amazing.

The first three tracks are like a nice warm reassuring hug. No, probably not as good as owt on Loveless, but pleasant nonetheless. Agreed that it gets really good from thereon in, though. Wonder 2 is an amazing way to end it.

I get the feeling that "nice warm reassuring hug" is not really the point of MBV though.

I don't.

I think it's part of the point of Loveless, as a record. The live experience is obviously different. I've always thought one of the best things about Loveless is that its character changes quite dramatically depending on the volume you play it at; low, it's a soothing balm. High, it's something else entirely.

Loveless may feel comforting NOW but it certainly didn't when it was released. Or at least it didn't until you'd got past the alienating bits, even if that only took one listen.

I get the feeling that "nice warm reassuring hug" is not really the point of MBV though.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, February 5, 2013 5:03 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're right, it's "nice warm reassuring fuck"

Just filed a 500 word of this without mentioning Isn't Anything/Loveless - have i ballsed up?