One of Britain’s most potent live acts My Bloody Valentine could be about to head back into the studio, a mere 18 years after they released their last album.
My Bloody Valentine are led by Kevin Shields, and reformed in 2007 after a fourteen year hiatus. The group were legends on Creation Records, who released their two best loved albums ‘Isn’t Anything’ and ‘Loveless’.
The group’s mixture of ethereal vocals and crunching guitars inspired the shoegazing movements, but no band could hope to match the ferocious nature of the My Bloody Valentine live show.
During the track ‘You Made Me Realise’ the group often strum the same chord for twenty minutes or more, at an excruciatingly loud volume. My Bloody Valentine were so loud, in fact, that some members of the audience have been known to flee the venue.
In a new interview leader Kevin Sheids revealed his future plans for the band. “After the end of August, we’ll have a radical change,” he told the Dallas Observer.
“Line-up, we might expand a bit. In that respect, we’ll add another member to the group, just to do more stuff. And sound-wise, absolutely. You know, it’ll be…taking a different approach.”
Sessions for the band’s third album have continued in some form or another since 1993. With no end in sight, the guitarist revealed the group could play some new material on their upcoming tour.
Shields also claimed to have been inspired by folk-blues tapes given to him by Bobby Gillespie. “That style of folk-blues music, I would say is weirdly enough like ‘Loveless’,” he said of the tapes.
“That style of songwriting, where you have the verses and then the instrumental breaks. I suppose, if I were to say there’s any kind of music in the world that feels really natural to me, it’s that kind. Not just folk-blues, but folk music in general.”
“The great thing is playing together, we’re just doing it the way we were planning to do it at the time, except with the right equipment and the right sounds,” he said.
My Bloody Valentine are confirmed to curate this year’s ATP: Nightmare Before Christmas festival.
