We’ll believe it when it’s lodged in our disc drive, but Kevin Shields is adamant that the long, long, long overdue follow up to My Bloody Valentine’s 1991 classic, Loveless, will be with us before Christmas. This will be followed by an EP of similarly new material, and a headlining turn in early May at the 60,000-capacity Tokyo Rocks.
“I think with this record, people who like us will immediately connect with something,” he tells the NME. “Based on the very, very few people who’ve heard stuff – some engineers, the band, and that’s about it – some people think it’s stranger than Loveless. I don’t. I feel like it really frees us up, and in the bigger picture it’s 100 per cent necessary.”
As for their Tokyo Rocks gig, Shields adds: “Primal Scream played it last year and (our bassist) Debbie played with them, she said it was good so we were like ‘Cool, we’ll do it’. It’s in some baseball stadium, it’ll be the biggest semi-enclosed gig we’ve ever done.”