The Return Of My Bloody Valentine

It's a really good album, strangely underrated I think.

Stoked for seeing 'em Friday in Chicago. Hadn't listened to 2013 mbv record much since year it came out and it is hitting the spot.

show last night was wonderful, the visuals especially. v psychedelic

This show is loud. Even with good quality earplugs it's a wall of sound that you feel in your clothes/hair. Very entertaining show - all these years later, everyone is playing top notch. I saw 'em Valentine's day 92 in Chicago, and they're just as good, if not better than I remember.

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cool picture imo

i enjoyed the show but wow, you couldn't hear the vocals at all. it's hard for me to imagine seeing them live and not hearing the records beforehand - you'd have no idea that there was this whole vocal melody thing going on

whoops, meant this picture

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i like how the hair and guitar strap cut away the body equally

Is that a tumblr of just Bilinda lookin super foxy?

Re: tonight's performance by the band My Bloody Valentine, yes very much indeed yes. The last fifteen minutes felt like another trip through Lynch's atomic detonation. Glorious noise. I was just in awe over how good they sounded.

I thought it wasn't actually as loud as the ample warnings had suggested (really only earplugged a few brief times) but now I'm lying in silence for the first time this evening and, oh, there's the ringing I thought I'd avoided.

gotta say that when I saw 'em in 08 at roseland, I encountered a lot of "gawd this is the loudest show you'll ever go to," from indie rock and dance music people in advance. afterwards it was "oh 'you made me realize" was so crushing," etc etc… it seemed that anyone saying that had never, for instance, been to a Slayer show or to an event involving any of that band's descendants. MBV didn't seem that extreme to me in light of the volume of, oh, the 20 or so prior years of metal shows I'd gone to.

also, the bataclan 2013 video is fascinating to me vis-a-vis who generates what parts, as loveless and MBV by definition do not make it clear what any individual musician is supposed to play in live situations. It seems BB mostly strums chords as ballast when KS needs to play single notes/phrases, and often she doesn't play at all. I can't see from the vid what Deb is doing.

"vocalist" iirc

I've seen Slayer at First Avenue! also Motorhead! Swans!

do I pass yr big boy noise guy test?

Motorhead was super loud in a club setting, probably as loud or a bit louder than MBV, due to old school wall of amps

MBV is really loud and I think it's ridiculous to argue otherwise

Loud and also uncomfortable frequencies (at least to my ears).

@ the Oakland show - always memorable ingesting reactions to Holocaust section. Oakland crowd seemed meditative and accepting. A couple people seemed to go out of their way to make a show of themselves as if reacting on a different emotional plain - maybe they were, I can't say. Denver crowd 5 years ago was incredulous, confused - and favorite part was seeing front stage security eventually turn around in confusion, wondering if they hit a glitch in their life.

Well worth seeing any show @ The Fox in Oakland, just for the record.

fucking great last night at Hammerstein ballroom, a place I had not been to in 13-14 years. Sound is not great in that room and I was mostly near the doors, so if the sound was crushing for people closer to the stage, it was not devastatingly loud.

so so exciting to hear "soon" pumping away, and the 2013 shit was excellent. and it was an alt rock show of the sort that I used to attend a lot but do not any longer. Smashing Pumpkins was basically across the street.

ah damn sounds like fun xpost

extra tickets released yesterday for all the sold-out venues on the current world tour

Lol http://thequietus.com/articles/25475-my-bloody-valentine-two-new-albums

Every picture of them they remain young as ever.

I think they played 2 new songs at the Shrine in July. One had Kevin playing an acoustic and it seemed fine but didn't make much of an impression one way or the other, but I'm not sure that means much - the sonics weren't great at the venue, at least compared to the first time I saw them at FYF Fest 5 years ago, so it was hard to get a gauge on the lower-key material; I hadn't re-listened to the band's prior work in a good 2 or 3 years and everything but a handful of songs from Loveless and mbv was basically a blur for me. The other song that I'm sure was new was a "TV Eye" style rave-up, most of it one chord repeated incessantly, and it was FUCKING AMAZING. Based on that one song alone I eagerly await their next release. I'm pretty much positive it'll emerge sometime in the next half decade. And I hope we hear the one after that before global warming claims us all, but I'm not so fucking sure - Kevin Shields was already talking follow-up EP back when mbv dropped, after all.

re-listened to the band's prior work in a good 2 or 3 years and everything but a handful of songs from Loveless and mbv was basically a blur for me.

you know what, too easy

there was a new song with acoustic guitar last night, too; the sound was so great (a million times better than six years ago in Sydney) that I winced seeing him holding it, in fear of how sharp he was going to make it sound

??

https://www.mybloodyvalentine.org/

Their lilac phase

The return of Kev’s beemer
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Was hoping to score a Loveless shirt in the Supreme drop but lucked out, unsurprisingly so as they apparently sold out in 6.7 seconds. Psyching myself up to pay well over the odds on resale.

For anyone else who, like me, was curious about this Supreme x MBV collab:

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I don't get the Supreme frenzy on anything, but even more confusing with how lazy that is. Given the hype I expected something more well-designed than just slapping a crop of the cover art slapped on a hoodie.

But I guess just slapping the SUPREME name on pre-existing items is their whole thing so, fits I guess?

Yeah, I think the back looks kinda cool but the front is weak.

Yeah I do like that font on the back, but the front looks like something anyone could mock-up on cafe press or w/e.

Yeah that's why I only went for the Loveless shirt which has a really nice all over print. It eluded me, though, for now at least.

Anyway, I'm sure Shields will have made a lot of money out of this deal. Which may even, who knows, herald some new MBV activity before the decade is out.

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!