My Bloody Valentine to Record New Music

[Major_Kong]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/03-07/15.shtml

…members of the band are presently holed up a Berlin studio, recording material for a forthcoming My Bloody Valentine box set.

The trio of Kevin Shields, Colin O’Ciosiog and Bilinda Butcher (vocalist Debbie Googe is apparently not present) are reportedly re-recording five songs that the band abandoned for their 1989 EP Glider. The EP, released in between 1988’s Isn’t Anything and the group’s undisputed masterpiece, the dream-pop landmark Loveless, was originally meant to be a nine-song full-length album, but the band, as usual, was took too long to record it and eventually caved to pressure from the industry and released the four finished songs as an EP.

The remaining five unfinished songs from the sessions were shelved indefinitely as the band proceeded to work on Loveless-- and with the group’s breakup soon after, “indefinitely” seemed to turn into “forever” for those missing tunes. Now that could all change. The box set, which is tentatively due out this winter, is said to contain the long-awaited full version of My Bloody Valentine’s Glider album, fleshed out by the new recordings. There is, however, no word yet as to what else the box set might contain, or even what label may decide to release it.

All I can say is it is about damn time.

[amanset]

I’ll believe it when I see it.

[Sigmundex]

Amen, amanset. It’s hard to believe they’re back at is (sans Googe), but I’m keeping my fingers crossed. I’ve just recently gotten back into listening to their music again.

[Tansu]

Ooh, fingers crossed.

[ruadh]

I don’t really trust this report, not least because Colm’s name is misspelled and Deb the bassist is mistakenly described as the “vocalist”. It will be nice if it happens, but I’m not holding my breath.

[Semp]

And when they’ve completed recording it, will Kevin Shields toss it in the trash like he did the follow-up to Loveless? And what if he decides to make it sound less like MBV circa 1989 and more like his more recent work with Primal Scream?