My Bloody Valentine fans, rejoice! Yesterday NME revealed via a Mojo interview with Kevin Shields that a new My Bloody Valentine record and ep will be released later this year. All of the "new" material was recorded in the mid-90's and has been shelved for years due to internal and record label turmoil. Shields rediscovered the music while he was preparing the upcoming remasters of Isn't Anything, Loveless, and the compilation EPs 1988-1991. From the Mojo interview:
"I listened to the stacks of CDs and thought, 'Shit, this is better than
the unreleased tracks on the compilation'. I decided it would be insane
not to finish it," he said.
There is no release date for the album and ep, but if Kevin Shields says it'll be released, you know it's potentially not happening.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Pitchfork, Shields explained why the reissues of Isn't Anything and Loveless have taken forever--he blames the delay on record label Sony and alleged that the label hid the master tapes from him:
"The contract we did in 2001 basically gave me ownership of
the tapes, and then the Sony regime that existed when that contract was
signed left. And when the new regime came in, the tapes disappeared.
That was relevant because even though I was the owner, it would only
revert back to me if I remastered from the original tapes-- if the tapes
were gone, I couldn't remaster from them and hence I couldn't ever own
them."
Isn't Anything, Loveless, and EPs 1988 - 1991 will be released in the U.K. on May 7th and will be available on import in North America in the weeks that follow. EPs 1988 - 1991 drops May 15th; Isn't Anything and Loveless drop June 5th.
