The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

I wish, one day, I will be as good at the internet as you sic, I'm not worthy

(ty shakey!)

only usa my son

yeah that was kind of uneventful lol

I was certainly hoping for something a little more adventurous since the track is a collaboration with Eno. It's pretty standard stuff. And it could comfortably fit in an intro to a Sigur Ros song circa the parenthesis/brackets (()) album (I mention them as a band who exploited this sound the most in recent times).

I have found that Eno pushed himself a little more, or at least produced more captivating or interesting sounds, when working with Harmonia. I listen to a few of their tracks every so often and the nature and treatment of the tones is so captivating that it's hypnotic. I think even after all these years, some of their tracks sound refreshing, whereas this new track sounds like some stock samples, though I'm not saying they are.

I liked that but it needed to be 35min long and through the stereo and with me not at work listening to other people's phone calls.

Weirdly, it's been on Adult Swim Singles' Soundcloud page for two days and has only had 21 plays.

Holy shit, that is something I never expected to happen. Sounds great to me, basically exactly as billed.

Though this is as strange a place for that to land as when that Mark Hollis fragment made it onto that TV drama or wherever.

wonder if we will actually get a new album next year

Someone should speed this up 800x and see if it's actually Justin Bieber.

thanks Shakey!

that's an example of 1+1<1, so generic and boring. two of the most interesting musicians working together and creating nothing.

I like their nothing

Eeeeno
Eno collaboraaation
All across the naaation
As sure as night follows day

Someone should speed this up 800x and see if it's actually Justin Bieber.

at least it would be over quicker.

Maybe coming into it without time for form expectations helps, as I find it to be quite stunning.

yeah it's a beautiful thing to listen to.

sounded okay on headphones but sounds amazing on sound system at home. love all mbv but they can be a little claustrophobic at times in terms of mixing/mastering, love how spacious this is. would be thrilled if the new record were more 'songy' but with this depth of sound

this is pretty rad. glad i waited until it was dark and lit some candles for this. oh yeah.

i like how raw it sounds. sounds like a live mix or something. lovely washes of sound. i like hearing the rhythm submerge for minutes at a time and maybe you just get it from the bass or something. wonderful.

shakey is my hero for today

maybe this link will work for those unable to stream it directly from adultswim?

https://soundcloud.com/adultswimsingles/brian-eno-with-kevin-shields

this sounds somehow exactly as i would expect but also sounds fresh and lovely. very happy to have this today

I'm really enjoying it. Pretty much what I was hoping for.

<3 kevian shielno

this is good, gets better as it goes oln

Yeah, quite great.

This is great, very much in the vein of Shields' other "ambient" pieces on that 'Offbeat' compilation and for La La La Human Steps - the track "2" from that time is one of my favorites.

this one:
https://youtu.be/X4d8wA9XieQ?t=41s

hmm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4d8wA9XieQ

the obvious Kevin part starts at 41 secs

thanks for posting that, i had never heard it!

i feel like i'm a level 8/10 mbv fan because i think i have heard everything but there is always more stuff out there that i was clueless about, and also gotta leave 10 free so you have something to work towards

this new one sounds better with each listen, too.

the second half is just incredible

Yep, this is great. There's so much going on, so many currents flowing in different directions. Spaciousness otm.

sounds like Flying Saucer Attack: Classic or Dud?

wow this is lovely

xp. really? spacious is not the term i'd associate with this track. i find it claustrophobic and oppressive, as if a dark cloud would be above me which is just about to disintegrate into pouring rain. it has got a little bit of the godspeed crescendo formula going on where the music is building up all the time which i find really annoying these days. in the end the music builds down again but it does not really help. i very much prefer the tracks from "on land". i guess that is as there are real nature recordings on it and not onyl synthie washes.

I knew I could count on you to hate this amazing music

i find it claustrophobic and oppressive, as if a dark cloud would be above me which is just about to disintegrate into pouring rain.

Sounds like a rave review!

yeah, i mean that sounds right, but at some point the cloud suddenly clears and you are bathed in glorious sunlight, you know?

the part 2/3 in where the accompaniment (presumably eno's?) drops out, and then the sound comes back in - goosebumps. so good. also i feel like a doofus because i don't know how to refer to whatever shields is doing (presumably - also i feel like a doofus because i'm just assuming kevin shields is doing the kevin shieldsy-noise and eno is making the eno-noise) - "the sound"? the guitar? waves of guitar noise? fuck. it's good though.

^^ yes especially when the pitch starts to bend up and the noise kicks back in

maybe that note isn't bending... hard to tell before it gets subsumed back into the wall of noise

Any way to download an MP3 of this somewhere?

Οὖτις’s link above still works

Grabbed it on slsk last night

Getting Blade Runner vibes off this. The chimes obviously, but also the sweeping bendy notes, CS-80 swapped out for guitar.

Good new interview with more engaging lies from Kevin about when a new album will come out.

https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/my-bloody-valentines-kevin-shields-dissects-his-new-loveless-vinyl-remaster-talks-new-album/

Hey Kevin: less talk, more action

Less talk?

Good interview with him. I sort of feel the same way he feels about volume. I've seen lots of shows and lots of loud shows and rarely ever wear earplugs, yet I don't think my years at 42 are bad. In fact, I think they're still pretty good, and I've always wondered if that had something to do with how I listen to music versus how loud I listen to music. Though tbh, I don't listen to music at home or in the car, or on headphones, at high volumes.