My Bloody Valentine

live bootlegs coming too? redditor found placeholder pages that reference specific shows

https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBloodyValentine/comments/mgqnk9/some_pages_i_found_on_the_website/

Did anyone buy it on vinyl? Was the pressing good?

the pressing was ok. unfortunately, by the time it arrived at my doorstep, the cover/gatefold had tears and rips in two different places

Both of the copies i swiped from urban outfitters had this issue. Everyone i know who bought it reported this also.

He is the mirror to my Dorian Gray. (Maybe.)

I keep mistaking him for Brian May these days.

The man is beginning to physically resemble Brian May!

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee),

Ha!! It's undeniable

website is updated now, seems like it's just reissues as expected. not new remasters or new material or anything

give me an EPs double LP you cowards

mbv disbanded, reissuing loveless in original CD form, raffle for mailing list, coupons to follow

https://www.dominomusic.com/news/uk/my-bloody-valentine-sign-to-domino-announce-full-catalogue-reissue

ah there are actually some new remasters - the standard edition vinyls are "mastered from new hi-res uncompressed digital sources". sounds like the deluxe vinyls are the same as the 2018 analogue remasters though and all the digital releases are the same as 2012.

is this the kind of "full catalogue reissue" where their full catalogue is not, in fact, reissued?

it's their full catalogue as much as they haven't really acknowledged the existence of anything before "you made me realise" for over 30 years now and i didn't really expect them to start now

the vinyl reissues are going fast, I've picked up a standard Loveless and the deluxe Isn't Anything, and the EPs/Rarities thing which comes in a fancy CD case apparently.

Ordered the deluxe Isn't Anything and Loveless. Got the Plain Recordings reissue 15 years ago and have a og Loveless cd. The former looks gorgeous but is supposedly sourced from cd masters so decided to go for these new reissues. Got the m b v vinyl when it came out and though I agree the quality of the cover isn't much (mine arrived in great shape though) I figured there's no need to get the new one. The EP/rarities collection is great.

yeah I picked up m b v on vinyl when it came out too, seems fine to me in all respects so no need to get another copy of that

it's their full catalogue as much as they haven't really acknowledged the existence of anything before "you made me realise" for over 30 years now and i didn't really expect them to start now

Two bands with one name.

well ecstasy & strawberry wine are at least the classic line-up and you can hear how they got to the you made me realise EP from those, but anything from before those may have well been a completely different band yeah

Yeah, even with Billinda in, and as you say being able to draw lines to the later work, they clearly haven’t *become* the second band yet.

(Every band after 1994 should have considered following the Beastie Boys’ lead in reissuing their early, developmental work on a compilation called Some Old Bullshit. Just make it as universal a title as Greatest Hits, that signals which kind of listener it’s for.)

is there US distro for these reissues? All I'm finding so far are the mbv site and bleep

nevermind, I'm dumb, accidentally selected "US Outlying Islands" from the dropdown menu which explained the exorbitant shipping charge despite the prices being in USD. All sorted now.

NYT piece I’m too lazy to link to bc I finished reading and closed the tab but they’re recording two new albums, one traditionally MBV-sounding and the other more experimental? okay

here's the piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/arts/music/my-bloody-valentine-shields.html

the most interesting bits:

Shields said he’d also like to reissue the band’s earliest releases, recorded with the singer David Conway, once they can be properly remastered.

Right now, the band’s members are waiting to see when they can get together in person at Shields’s home studio — O’Ciosoig also lives in Ireland, while Butcher and Googe are in England — to begin recording. If that can’t happen, they’ll explore remote options. Shields said the first of the two albums will be “warm and melodic,” while the second will be more experimental — a stark evolution from what he called his otherwise “very traditional” writing process to date.

As for a timeline for release, he didn’t say. (“I think once I can get over to Ireland it will get done very quickly as my vocals are often the last thing to be recorded,” Butcher wrote. “They’ll probably be finished by the end of the year.”)

so this is just kevin is still working on stuff but nothing's done yet

xpost lol I had copy/pasted exactly the same quotes in a post

I'll leave this one (the closing sentence) here though, re:- your last quote:

Time is a bit more precious,” he said. “I don’t want to be 70-something wanting to make the next record after ‘m b v.’ I think it’d be cooler to make one now.

Weird that the standard vinyl and the deluxe vinyl are the same price. Why would you buy the former?

xpost It *would* be cool af, Mr Shields, but let’s be real here.0

(ignore the “0”)

xp they're different masters (the name is confusing though yeah)

deluxe is the 2018 all-analog signal chain master, standard is a new digital remaster

Oh got it, thanks for that clarification.

Looks like the Loveless vinyl deluxe has gone already, getting insufficient stock when I try to order it.

so this is just kevin is still working on stuff but nothing's done yet
― ufo, Wednesday, March 31, 2021 7:21 AM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao. i trust bilinda more than him at least. he said followup to mbv would '100%' come out in 2018

couldn't get the analog loveless, but happy to have an officially sanctioned copy on vinyl

this made me chuckle

“My nieces and nephews — they would complain to me, because when they would try and show their friends, they can’t find it anywhere,” Shields said. “They’re like, ‘Why are you so purposely obscure? You know, it seems stupid.’ That kind of stuff that made me think, ‘Yeah, I guess my perception of the world isn’t the world.’ There’s a whole world out there I know nothing about.”

<3

it's always so amazing when a neurodivergent supergenius somehow manages to connect with the mainstream

kevin's world >>>>>>

lol i guess i'm never getting either of those analog-cut LPs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU7tX5YJghc

remastered "soon" video looks sick

Did we figure out the Imperioli connection to all of this just yet?

Imperioli provides the hair curlers for Kev’s perm

belated realization that loveless is a root for me? that sounds goofy i'm sure but the androgynous blend of voices had a subconscious impact that i'm only just recognizing

the album cover is even bisexually lit

imperioli is a known huge fan and i'm guessing he'd just heard the inside word about the reissues somehow

MBV have entered their Imperioli phase

there it is

I believe he’s getting Domino to reissue a special edition of The Fall’s “Imperioli Wax Solvent”

there it isn't

xp they're different masters (the name is confusing though yeah)

deluxe is the 2018 all-analog signal chain master, standard is a new digital remaster

― ufo, Wednesday, March 31, 2021 8:51 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

welp I guess I'm buying both. You're right, though, that was very confusing. Happy I managed to get the deluxe of Loveless and Isn't Anything but I hope the standard editions don't sell out as quickly because I can't afford them right now. Going broke over here!

"O’Ciosoig also lives in Ireland" I guess he and Hope moved out of California?

Anyway, glad I have those 2018 pressings since these apparently vanished immediately this morning. I didn't even get an MBV email and I'm certainly on their mailing list. I wish they'd release the EP stuff on vinyl though.

my tax refund just hit so i bought the standard reissues bc fuck it

hope loveless makes it over here ok

Domino say they can't/won't sell any of the reissues but mbv to the US and Bleep seems to have sold out of both vinyl formats instantly >:(

wtf with these small runs? Would pick up in a shop someday, here in Canada, if they're ever up for that

it's not like there are lots of pressing plants, or that the ones which exist aren't booked up to a year in advance already

Then wait a little longer? What's another six months or so if the 2018 reissues were already out of print?

Can do. They're going to keep cranking these out? Was the 2018 ever available somewhere other than their site?