My Bloody Valentine delivered a Christmas surprise to fans, announcing on Facebook this evening that the band finished mastering its 21-years-in-the-making follow-up to the 1991 classic Loveless three days ago. Whether the record still will be released online before year’s end, as Kevin Shields previously pledged, remains to be seen.
According to the post on MBV’s official Facebook page: “On 21-12-12 we finished mastering the new album!” There was no elaboration on any release dates or other plans.
The news follows recent announcements that My Bloody Valentine will tour next year, with shows announced so far in the U.K., Australia and Japan.
PREVIOUSLY ON SLICING UP EYEBALLS
- My Bloody Valentine expands 2013 touring plans with 3 new U.K. concerts next March
- My Bloody Valentine to headline ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror Melbourne in February
- My Bloody Valentine in Japan: Kevin Shields and Co. set to play Tokyo, Osaka in February
- My Bloody Valentine’s ‘Loveless’ reissue: Are the 2 remastered discs mislabeled?
- New releases: My Bloody Valentine reissues (really), plus J Mascis’ Heavy Blanket
- My Bloody Valentine releases possible photographic evidence of alleged reissues
- Sony: My Bloody Valentine ‘Isn’t Anything,’ ‘Loveless’ reissues, ‘EPs 1988-1991’ out in May
Kevin Shields: “Yes, finally mastered and ready to be released upon the public. Look for it in 2015- if I feel like releasing it, depending on how i feel that year”. God help him if it tanks. Remember Chinese Democracy from GnR? Yikes.
Second Coming anyone?
Looking forward to hearing it after all these years.
Great. More suck.
Unlike Chinese democracy the band is the same and the man at the helm seems less scattered than axel…
I think it will be a better follow up then either second coming or chinese democracy…