Kevin Shields Reveals Info on NEW My Bloody Valentine Album, Out by Year’s End

With the first wave of My Bloody Valentine reunion shows all wrapped up and a seemslikeforever gap until their North American debut at ATP New York, fans like myself away from the action are filling the void with questions like “when is the band going to release new material?” It seems, according to a recent article in the August issue of UK rag MOJO, that we’re not going to have to wait very long. Shit, we’ve already been waiting seventeen years, so what’s a couple more months or even a year?

After scooping up the MOJO Classic Album for 1991′s classic album Loveless in June, the magazine caught up with Kevin Shields who states:

We’ve an album that was half finished in the ’90s. As usual with me, basically there were periods of productivity, then nothing. We were wary that we were plodding. It seems like that from a distance but when you’re doing it it’s like a few great days then not really doing much for the rest of the week, or two weeks. We’re not doing any gigs in October-November. That’s when I’m going to try and finish it off, to be out by the end of the year in some fashion. At the moment it’s only got vocals on about two tracks. It’s mostly just guitars and the basic backing tracks.

Shields continues, dropping hints about what we can expect from the yet to be named mystery album:

It’s kind of a bit less poppy and more sort of expanded. More melodic but less poppy melodic… There’s no kind of hooky, dinky binks or anything. The main thing about it is the guitars and some of the drums are way heavier and tougher, way more kind of, ‘That’s interesting…’ A much more growling and screaming sort of sound.

Sweet. Seems ambitious to see this thing released by the end of the year, but, then again, I never really expected these reunion shows to happen after years of rumors.

[MP3]: My Bloody Valentine  ”To Here Knows When (Live)”
Live at London’s ICA; June 13, 2008