My Bloody Valentine are a legendary shoegaze(=walls of guitar, vocals low in the mix) band from Ireland. They formed in 1983 and have released two albums that became the genre's landmark albums.
Especially "Loveless", their second album, that was released in 1991, has been hailed as a classic album and has influenced a lot of other artists. Check out some tracks off the album here:
Only Shallow:
Soon:
Sadly the band split up after this masterpiece but a lot of people were pleasantly surprised in 2007 when the band reunited and played some live shows again. Kevin Shields, who is the guitarist and singer of the band, also announced that My Bloody Valentine were working on the follow up to "Loveless", which is 20 years old by now. But until now this album has not been released. A lot of people speculate that this is due to Shields' perfectionism when recording music. The band went through countless engineers and studios to finish "Loveless".
I'm one of the people eagerly awaiting this album and it's ok with me if it takes a bit longer because I know it will be really epic when it's out. I hope I won't have to wait another 20 years though.
I fucking live this band.
ReplyDeletea friend of mine is really waiting for this to come out
ReplyDeletesounds good
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ReplyDeletethe new album will hopefully be as amazing as the older ones
never liked them, glad they split
ReplyDeleteI love this band
ReplyDeleteI could never get into them but I have a friend that is a big fan
ReplyDeleteNice music, but the movie was better ;)
ReplyDelete(My Bloody Valentine 3D!) Best valentines day ever.
Nice! New album will hopefully bring their popularity back up.
ReplyDeleteAnother great post! keep up the good blogging!
ReplyDeleteWow, haven't listened to them in a very long time.
ReplyDeleteI've been a fan of them for a while. Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteGreat new album!
ReplyDeleteBeen waiting and waiting and waiting.... not holding my breath
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