Kevin Shields spills all to Rolling Stone

The legendarily uncommunicative Kevin Shields has broken his silence and talked to Rolling Stone magazine.

Asked the $64,000 question – "Where's the bleedin' follow-up to Loveless?" – the My Bloody Valentine lynchpin says: "Every year, I've done something, be it singles or remixing and mixing. I guess I just stopped making records myself, and I suppose that must seem weird to people. 'Why'd you do that?' The answer is, it wasn't as good (as Loveless). And I always promised myself I'd never do that, put out a worse record."

As for the year he spent living as a recluse, Shields concedes: "I suppose in a seven-bedroom house, it can be a bit weird."

The exciting news is that having recorded four instrumentals for Sophia Coppola's new film, Lost In Translation, the Primal Scream guitarist feels "provoked in getting something out quite soon on my own. I have an unusually large stockpile of tunes because I never stopped writing. I might make some little, low-key releases, just get the stuff out of the way. I keep writing new songs and I wonder, 'Did I write that already?' Is that someone else's song?' But I've finally reached a point where I really want to and need to do some stuff – and can."
Shields and his former bandmates recently spruced up four unreleased songs for an upcoming My Bloody Valentine box-set, but apart from that have no plans to reform.