The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

Can't wait for the MBV-Goes-Jungle album to finally drop in 2029. I hear Doc Scott's gonna be all over it!

I grabbed a Loveless T from MBV online a few years ago. Black shirt, ultra dark blackish purple album cover with LOVELESS printed above it. Pleasantly subtle, almost looks straight plain black depending on the light. Handsome shirt tbh.

make your own iron-on tees and put a fake Supreme logo on it, imo

I bought an MBV tshirt from their 2009 tour that’s the cover of you made me realise and it’s very nice but I’m too fat to wear it now

it made you realise

lol

did it tho?

I listened to the last album a couple weeks ago and man it’s so f’in good. Had one of those ‘whooooaaaaaaa’ moments during “In Another Way”.

I mean, listened to it again

Deluxe vinyl of Loveless has gone up for sale again on the official site for those who missed out before. I don't expect these to hang around for long though.

apparently the EPs are on streaming in usa now at last

The shipping in the US store is still absurd, and it goes up the less you buy.

$15 if you order the bundle, $24 if you just try to check out with Isn't Anything and Loveless.

I’m in US and it allowed me to select a cheaper shipping option

o rly?

Oh yeah, once you move past your cart page, you see the shipping options. Thanks!

No problem!

cool good looking out
ordered the deluxe of loveless and isn't anything

bullshit on the non deluxe versions looks like they were pressed differently

I've been listening to the 96/24 FLACs for Loveless today. Certainly enjoying it more than I have enjoyed this album in a while. Maybe a little more dynamic and open, smoother top end and other hi-fi isms. Would probably need better headphones to notice a bigger difference.

I'm still not sure what the source of the new digital files would be. They seem to be the same with either version of the vinyl.

yeah these flacs sound amazing

*strains ears at new loveless wav files* ugh i can't believe kevin shields is doing this to me again

sounds like loveless therefore it sounds awesome

"i only said" literally the greatest song of all time

MBV has made at least half a dozen greatest songs of all time, and that might be one!

Truly Depressing: This Elderly 36-Year-Old Man Is Babbling Incoherently About Something Called ‘My Bloody Valentine’ https://t.co/gniXtih0cL

— ClickHole (@ClickHole) June 17, 2020

sorry that was mean. I love MBV too

as a geriatric milliennial, i pretty much have to

Couple more tracks on the EP's CDs. An alternate version of Don't Ask Why and this dirty thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFGClL5jmDY

I have always loved MBV but streamed the ep's for sixty seconds, felt decrepit and had to shut them off??? OTOH I can listen to some 50s jazz and feel daisy fresh. I think it's geriatric millennial cooties.

sixty seconds of each song, 15 seconds of each EP, or 3.5 seconds of each song and then skipping to the next?

do I have to buy any of this shit again if I already have the CDs from the last go around?

what’s the german word for the relief you feel upon seeing “sold out” on the 20th version of loveless you’ve been spared to have to get

? All versions are currently showing as in stock.

xp
i believe the german word is linderung

I got carried away (thanks to anagram) and pre-ordered but I'll probably sell the vinyl on when it finally arrives in October. The hi-res files however are worthwhile if obviously not essential.

Oh whoa they're actually selling to the US now!!

Ordered, though for some reason there doesn't seem to be any download for Isn't Anything.

...also the downloads instantly fail when i try to start them, womp womp

the mp3s do... not the other formats

Every format for me. Never had this happen with a label/artist shop using the Bleep backend before, but I could see server load being a problem, or maybe a new version of the files being migrated? It's not like I haven't heard these before; I'm just happy I could finally get the older albums on vinyl

i had it happen with that large batch of autechre live shows. after a month they refunded me.

Has anyone on ILM heard both versions of the mbv vinyl (the original pressing from 2013 and the new pressing)? Somebody on another forum said the new pressing sounds less murky than the original, which I’ve always thought sounded muddy and muted. I don’t want to shell out for the new one, though, if it was made from the same master. The details have been vague on the Domino site.

I too am looking for details on this, as well as the differences between the new standard and deluxe editions. I checked over at the Hoffman forums and lasted all of three minutes. I'm assuming the information is there but I really can't be bothered to spend an afternoon reading about DRM numbers and shipping notifications so hopefully ILM can help

i have both the original and the new one sitting right here waiting for me to compare them. I'll do it now.

super quick check on the first track didn't sound appreciably different to me.

(and I mainly bought it because the sleeve on the original is so fucking flimsy. new sleeve is better, but still not the thick booklike sleeves the last round of reissues came in unfortunately. I assume Loveless and IA are similar0

thanks akm!

Anyone grab both versions of Loveless and Isn't Anything?

I'll check this again on my other stereo later today or tomorrow, it's more sensitive to things like this (I just listened on an AT-120 with some cheap powered studio monitors). It is hard to a/b when you dont have two turntables running through a mixer.

Thank you!

Pretty good interview, learned some stuff and details I'd not heard before

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/27/my-bloody-valentine-kevin-shields-band-killing-songs

Shields has a habit of making it sound like the most reasonable thing in the world one minute – bands are loud, he shrugs, but most gigs are “laughably quiet … something you’re consuming, not being consumed by” – then admitting that My Bloody Valentine reached a point where they were playing at such volume that they were causing structural damage to venues. “Chunks were falling out of the ceiling. It sounds like an exaggeration, but I’m serious – we were really concerned that eventually some roof was going to fall down,” he says. “It was a matter of time before a serious accident happened.”

Not everyone was impressed. There is a bootleg recording circulating among fans of a late 80s London gig degenerating into chaos – the sound man has given up and fled the building. Shields says that was one of the less extreme reactions. “At one gig, a butcher was literally chasing my sister with a cleaver – he wanted to chop the cable because it was shaking his shop so much when we were doing You Made Me Realise. The police turned up and arrested our tour manager during You Made Me Realise. They arrested him, put him in the car, questioned him and let him go and when he got back we were still playing it. Countless, countless situations.”

:D