Shoegaze gods My Bloody Valentine have elated fans of the fuzzy genre by announcing plans to release a new album and a new EP in 2012 – their first new material since 1991′s Loveless. In a recent chat with The Quietus, MBV frontman Kevin Shields both confirmed and clocked-in on its status:
“We’re making it now, in fact it’s almost done,” Shields explained. “I’m on the eighth song, and I’ve got to do vocals for that, then I’ve got to record the ninth song from scratch. Then I’ve got to mix it. But that’s OK, because I’m not slow at mixing.” He also added that “it’s not going to sound like Loveless where it’s like looking into another world,” and instead more along the lines of the band’s 1988 debut LP, Isn’t Anything, “where it seems to be of this world, but with one foot in another world.”
Shields also revealed that one previously unreleased track to be included along with the new material will be in the vein of drum and bass: “We were actually inventing a new sound – and this song doesn’t really represent it, but – we were doing slowed down drum & bass music around 1993, 1994.”
Eager fans (like us!) can stream the latest reissue of Loveless over at the Guardian or hear a previously unreleased gem entitled Good for You at Consequence of Sound.
