i hope the new album will be awesome to listen too, kevin shelds solo work is amazing too, i would like to thurston moore and kevin shields collaborate in the future.
i'll be seeing them on 13th march at hammersmith applo (2nd london date)
it's going to be excellent

This is awful. After 2 hours, I made it to "add to basket" then the server went down again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvAUDIsM4ic

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Thurston has released a record with Kevin Shields before

http://www.discogs.com/Kevin-Shields...elease/1703951

(It's not the same Kevin Shields though)

Update: Made it as far as "add an address"

I cant be the only person who likes to see a bit of unnecessary difficulty being reintroduced to buying an album. I reckon havin their website crash on you is just MBVs way of Keeping it Real.

Got it, it's sounding pretty great so far. Really liked the 3rd track who sees you!

ditto. found a link, then the site came back up just as it finished downloading..

Success! The site seems pretty stable now.

http://boingboing.net/2013/02/02/my-...elease-ne.html

Yeah, I fuckin love this after just 1 spin. I get the feeling that side 1 is dreamy, then side 2 gets punchy and fucked up.

The tracks are on youtube so you can hear them there. I've listened to it once and enjoyed it, but none of them have really kicked me in the teeth yet. After one listen I'd say its the lesser out of the big three (Isn't Anything, Loveless, and this new one), but that's likely premature.

I must spread some reputation around before...etc

Ahh... This is the life... Listening to new MBV, for the first time in what feels like forever. I'm sorry I ever had any doubts.

Listened to it three times in a row : My verdict? Terrible terrible terrible.
Se ya in another life, Kevin!

Couldn't disagree more. This stands up to Loveless and slaps it in the face. It's fuckin epic. I love that they released it on a Saturday night. Sunday morning after is highly appreciated. All releases should be Saturday night.

New You is such a beautiful track.

word. the last few tracks are where things start to get really intense huh.

i'm definitely not disappointed. great great album.

nothing is - filler

the rest is very good. at times it sounds like loveless lite, at other times it steps forward slighty. a track like new you seems like a step backward, albeit a very good one.

i think it explains why it took 22 years and so many false starts. it feels like a difficult compromise reached after they hit at the limits of their capacity and the inherent limits of the style itself.

you could cut out is this and yes and nothing is and maybe make the last track a holocaust section in another song and you'd have a very good ep.

at times they sound like serena maneesh or something you'd expect to hear in a very very good shoegaze band. and even the best shoegaze band are always tarred by the fact they are not mbv and can never come close to loveless.

kevin said the album "really frees them up". hopefully this is just the start of a revitalized band and there are many more to songs to come.

what struck me was how this album, especially in its weaker moments, seems to elucidate exactly why rock is in such a sorry state and has been since the times of loveless. there are admirable attempts to introduce drum and bass elements that you can tell they were really, really straining to make work. it's a very strange mix of the two styles. noone else has really made them work or combined them that well. a lot of the music in the late 90's tried to and only some of it had any success.

you would think "nothing is" is some party electronica rock song. it's almost skrillex like. then there is "wonder 2" which strays into incomprehensible avant noise territory. the two tracks don't fit together or sound like they belong to the same band. it gives the album an awkward and patchwork ending.

it's like it's not fair to blame mbv for the parts of this album that don't succeed because no one else has made them work that well either. maybe there are hints and traces in this album of a way to move forward. in a direction that is neither blatantly electronica or rock.

it's weird. we can all imagine better albums, we can all imagine something better to loveless but no one is able to do it.

the best song is "who sees you" which is just classic mbv and the equal of loveless.

Aye, I'm really looking forward to seeing how the last few tracks translate in the live setting. Seeing wonder 2 peformed live really would be tinnitus inducing.

Hmm gonna have to give it a couple more listens before I make a judgement. I really like 'In another way' at the very least.

Got it onto a CD, and three iDevices. Getting ready for a Sunday drive.

ive decided to abstain from listening until i can get a physical copy.

I'm not ready to judge either. So far I am not disappointed in the slightest, but I also think there may have been some missed opportunities here, which doesn't reflect on the album, but on the band, and the expectations of fans. I think it would have been interesting to see them take the Portoshead direction and make an album that truly sounds nothing like their previous work, but still seems to fit perfectly into the discography.

I'm talking shit though- I'm just delighted beyond belief that the fucker actually came out, and that I'm listening to it. This is objectively awesome in every way.

I just don't really get what people have waited 22 years for. I mean, the band has written some good songs, but really, since Loveless there have been dozens of MBV-influenced bands who have made records on par or better than the new one.

They're really a polarizing band. You either love everything they do or just don't get why using thirty different pedals to play a generic power chord progression suddenly makes you the greatest band ever.

Some of the songs were solid, but if you held a gun to me and asked what the third song sounded like, I have no idea what to tell you. It's a weaker Loveless because the melodies aren't as memorable, the production isn't as good, and the riffs are pretty samey.

Props for them finally releasing it, I'm just left wondering what we are getting excited about.

Wow. I mean, to each their own, but did we hear the same album? The melodies are amazing, the production is epic, and the riffs are varied and complex, imho that is. I'm shocked at the general "it ain't no Loveless" reaction to this.

I think the first two tracks and the last one are my favorites at this time.

Anyone have opinions on which physical copy to buy? I'm a little torn.

I admit to being easily confused, but will there be a cd of this in record stores come Feb 22nd?

Just buy the thing on the site.

I agree :)

I just listened to loveless because I can't listen to the new album....well only here at work....butt too many distractions.

I am imagining all the shoegaze music fans around the world freaking out over the new MBV release at the same time all the american football fans are freaking out over the Super Bowl. Do the shoegaze fans paint their faces, leap off of their sofas with arms raised, red faced, knocking over snack bowls, screaming in triumph so loud their neighbors can hear? I'd like to think so.

Hah.

No, they don't. Also, we don't clog the driveway with family campers, cars, and motorcycles so that the one person living in the duplex with a fucking job and car can't find a place to park, parks on the street, and is late for work the next day because he was blocked in by the plows. Fucking assholes.

... Cars are still there, haven't budged. I think they're hibernating. Meanwhile I'm so angry I'm starting to pop hemorrhoids.


MBV > US Football. Simple as that.

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in another way is good song

My sympathies, and your equation is of course correct.

lets get this out of the way now the new record is nowhere near as poppy or immediately satisfying as loveless with that said i still think its a good record. It's def more of a grower upon first listen i was a little disappointed but the more i hear it the more songs unfold into something interesting. favorite song on it for now-only tomorrow

i must say i like it. though i thought it would sound really different - a lot more like "is this and yes", more electronic too. but i like it the way it is

Are electronic elements in a rock band still meant to make them innovative?

I like the record more than Loveless and much less than Isn't Anything or anything from that era.

I was kind of thinking the same thing. And the comment about tryjng to introduce drum and bass made me look at the record differently and experience a weird Dig Your Own Hole-era 1995/6 déjà vu feeling.