https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB8nCE2EoIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB8nCE2EoI
According to thesaurus-loving music blog Pitchfork, the lately reunited aural-gasmic quartet My Bloody Valentine has finally disclosed its plans for a North American tour. That mammoth whoosh you hear in the distance is thousands of credit cards being pulled out of their wallets and purses.
As a journo who has been pursuing the band for months now trying to nail an interview with its reclusive genius Kevin Shields, I can't say where Pitchfork is getting their dates, or who is providing them. But I'm going to take their word for it nevertheless, because My Bloody Valentine is the music story of the year, even though they haven't released a full-length album since 1991's epochal Loveless.
Pitchfork's breathless reporting has at least proven accurate. The same can't be said for the lamentable Spin, whose writer William Goodman named Scarlett Johansson rather than Sofia Coppola as the director of Lost in Translation, one of the few projects that enticed Shields out of seclusion. (Not good, Spin, not good.) But early adopters and latecomers aside, one truth has not been lost in translation, and that's how influential and stunning My Bloody Valentine's short reign over the lush noise rock scene was in the late '80s and early '90s.
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So...the tour! Pitchfork has all the dates, so check there for a list. But so far the pertinent months are September and October, and only major metros like New York, Toronto, Chicago and Los Angeles are being surrounded by My Bloody Valentine's patented walls of tremolo guitar, whispered vocals and relentless riffage. Check back here for testimonials from artists and more on MBV as the tour unfolds, including coverage of the band's previously-announced appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties NYC. For now, brush up with the "Feed Me With Your Kiss" video above and the "Sometimes" and "When You Sleep" audio at right, and wait for their sublime noise to hit your town.
Those in search of transformative music have just hit the mother lode.
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