my bloody valentine 2013 (1 Viewer)

[Anthony]

I'll get around to it. Probably wait til I can walk into a shop and buy it.
Gave up reading "reviews" on state.ie a loooooong time ago.

 

[mr pharmacist!!!!1]

Hey guys
Just letting you know a friend of mine who works "in the industry" can confirm that the new album is going to be called my bloody valentine or "m b v"

 

[ann post]

I'll get around to it. Probably wait til I can walk into a shop and buy it.
Gave up reading "reviews" on state.ie a loooooong time ago.

the vineyl is limited by the by. probably limited to the number that get ordered by the dispatch date and a few extra, but limited all the same.

 

[Anthony]

CD'll do me.

Just went to buy the thing. "create an account" jesus h christ. I decided a few weeks ago, I'm not creating any more accounts online.

 

[the bearded lady]

the start of that song "new you" sounds like "A good heart" by Fergal Sharkey. After a few bars it changes into a less interesting song than Fergal's chart smash. On second listen to M-B-V now, way better already. I thought they'd all gotten eaten by Primal Scream or something long ago (battered and deep-fried first of course), so therefore i had no expectations whatsoever. not like Dickens. always expecting more that lad.

 

[the bearded lady]

CD'll do me.

Just went to buy the thing. "create an account" jesus h christ. I decided a few weeks ago, I'm not creating any more accounts online.

yes, and how the Internet wept at your loss.

why don't you lock yourself in the downstairs jacks again, bawling your eyes out trying to download the fucker from your old school calculator, you fucking Luddite!

 

[nutmeg81]

here are some more in depth reviews than what was on state:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/02/04/171069034/listening-to-my-bloody-valentine-three-ways

which includes a link to this other review:

http://thequietus.com/articles/11295-my-bloody-valentine-s-mbv-track-by-track-by-ned-raggett

i plan to get onto listening to it this evening. better late then never i guess.

 

[hugh]

Here's the review from my 7 year old daughter while listening to it yesterday.

Her: I don't like this music. There's no words.
Me: There are words, they are just buried in the mix a bit.
Her: I don't want them buried in the mix, I want them buried in my ears!

 

[Jill Hives]

Here's the review from my 7 year old daughter while listening to it yesterday.

Her: I don't like this music. There's no words.
Me: There are words, they are just buried in the mix a bit.
Her: I don't want them buried in the mix, I want them buried in my ears!

I agree with her.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

It's a fucking incredible album

 

[Thayl]

here are some more in depth reviews than what was on state:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/02/04/171069034/listening-to-my-bloody-valentine-three-ways

The above review receives bonus points for use of the word "Aslan".

 

[Kermit McDermott]

I'm told this won't be available in shops.....is that right?

 

[Jim Daniels]

I'm told this won't be available in shops.....is that right?

Tower Records are not expecting it anyway..

http://www.facebook.com/TowerRecordsDublin/posts/496802340359053

My Bloody Valentine update straight from the horse's mouth so to speak.....

Hello,

There are currently no plans for a full-scale release of the CD through high street retailers or other online platforms.

All the best,

my bloody valentine

So if you want this then go to their website.

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Bit unfair of them I think, considering the shops, especially the indie shows could do with the business.

 

[washingcattle]

Bit unfair of them I think, considering the shops, especially the indie shows could do with the business.

Considering their record with labels and the "industry" in general it's not hugely surprising.

 

[Jim Daniels]

Brian Boyd from the Irish Times is getting annoyed by the reviews and the "brouhaha" over the release. Wouldn't fancy sharing an office with that chap. Grumpy

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2013/0208/1224329779810.html

The reaction to mbv so far? Good Jesus. Never in has so much bullshit been written by so many for so few. Track-by-track reviews of an important new release are to be expected, but this week we had a second-by-second review of My Bloody Valentine’s new album. Or an attempt at same.

A random flick through the reviews give us the following: “it sounds like being hit on the head with a shovel and falling into a well half-filled with honey”; “it inverts the probable nature of instrumentation”; “it has a sickly, disconcerting quality, like a kind of aural equivalent of the way you feel just before you faint”; “songs that sound like Beatles classics played backwards, and heard through a wall of pudding”.

It seemed every person reviewing the album had to preface their “insights” with a brief autobiography: where they were and what they were doing when they first heard Loveless. Like we care.

You soon overdose on the same words being used in the same place. I actually tried playing a drinking game whenever the words “breathy”, “distorted” and “shimmering” were used but soon had to give up. If you owned the copyright to the word “shimmering” you’d be a gazillionaire this week thanks to mbv reviews.

Somebody even went to the trouble to inform us that it had been “21 years, 2 months, 29 days, and 23 hours” since the release of Loveless. And one brave soldier even got Margaret Thatcher and the Illuminati into the same paragraph.

Artists that were mentioned as reference points or inspirations included Ministry, Happy Mondays, Steve Reich, Big Country, Destiny’s Child and A Certain Ratio. Large amounts of people saw fit to crowbar the terms “top end” and “bottom end” into their reviews, despite not having the vaguest idea of what the terms actually mean. And people who’ve likely never been on the same street as a recording studio were writing mini-essays on how the mixing desk was used during this album. Vibrato or tremolo? Neither, so shut up.

Some of this “look-at-me” nonsense makes Finnegans Wake read like a Dan Brown novel: “It fills the sky with imaginary vapour trails, and creates the illusion of being strapped Icarus-like into a jet eight miles high and climbing”; “a honey-coloured smear of whispers and sighs in which syllables are no more distinct – and no less lulling – than waves in an ocean”.

Puddings, trumpets, the Illuminati, shovels, honey and inverting the probable nature of instrumentation. No wonder MBV disappeared for more than 20 years.

 

[washingcattle]

Brian Boyd from the Irish Times is getting annoyed by the reviews and the "brouhaha" over the release. Wouldn't fancy sharing an office with that chap. Grumpy

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2013/0208/1224329779810.html

The reaction to mbv so far? Good Jesus. Never in has so much bullshit been written by so many for so few. Track-by-track reviews of an important new release are to be expected, but this week we had a second-by-second review of My Bloody Valentine’s new album. Or an attempt at same.

A random flick through the reviews give us the following: “it sounds like being hit on the head with a shovel and falling into a well half-filled with honey”; “it inverts the probable nature of instrumentation”; “it has a sickly, disconcerting quality, like a kind of aural equivalent of the way you feel just before you faint”; “songs that sound like Beatles classics played backwards, and heard through a wall of pudding”.

It seemed every person reviewing the album had to preface their “insights” with a brief autobiography: where they were and what they were doing when they first heard Loveless. Like we care.

You soon overdose on the same words being used in the same place. I actually tried playing a drinking game whenever the words “breathy”, “distorted” and “shimmering” were used but soon had to give up. If you owned the copyright to the word “shimmering” you’d be a gazillionaire this week thanks to mbv reviews.

Somebody even went to the trouble to inform us that it had been “21 years, 2 months, 29 days, and 23 hours” since the release of Loveless. And one brave soldier even got Margaret Thatcher and the Illuminati into the same paragraph.

Artists that were mentioned as reference points or inspirations included Ministry, Happy Mondays, Steve Reich, Big Country, Destiny’s Child and A Certain Ratio. Large amounts of people saw fit to crowbar the terms “top end” and “bottom end” into their reviews, despite not having the vaguest idea of what the terms actually mean. And people who’ve likely never been on the same street as a recording studio were writing mini-essays on how the mixing desk was used during this album. Vibrato or tremolo? Neither, so shut up.

Some of this “look-at-me” nonsense makes Finnegans Wake read like a Dan Brown novel: “It fills the sky with imaginary vapour trails, and creates the illusion of being strapped Icarus-like into a jet eight miles high and climbing”; “a honey-coloured smear of whispers and sighs in which syllables are no more distinct – and no less lulling – than waves in an ocean”.

Puddings, trumpets, the Illuminati, shovels, honey and inverting the probable nature of instrumentation. No wonder MBV disappeared for more than 20 years.

He's not totally wrong. The music press are nearly as self involved as musicians.

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

He's totally right.

 

[Jim Daniels]

He's not totally wrong. The music press are nearly as self involved as musicians.

Yeah but there's only so many words/ adjectives one can use in a music review. His article there is a bit mean spirited and unlikeable. I love "events" like the MBV release and the reactions on Message Boards/ Twitter etc - people are bound to get carried away and throw out quick reviews. Would it be better to have no reaction?

 

[washingcattle]

On the other hand the fact that he's having a go at critics is pretty telling. He was obviously praying that MBV would be shite so he could have a go at it instead. Now he's disappointed that it's good. That's one of the things I hate about critics and certain artists etc, they seem like they don't actually like music or art or whatever they write about. They seem happier berating artists rather than celebrating them.