My Bloody Valentine to release new EP, mbv bonus tracks, plus reissues

It may have taken 21 years for them to follow-up Loveless but beloved shoegazers My Bloody Valentine have revealed in a rare interview that fans may not have to wait so long to hear more new music from the band.

Speaking to Pitchfork, frontman Kevin Shields is quoted as saying that three unheard cuts from the m b v sessions will “come out sometime”. As well as this, they might have a follow-up in its own right on the way.

“The next step is to make an EP of all-new material,” Shields says of the band’s often unpredictable creative schedule. “The main plan for next year is to make a new record.”

The musician also touched a bit upon upcoming reissues the group have planned, saying:

“I’m also going to re-master Lovelessand Isn’t Anything and all the EPs in analog to make pure analog cuts, which has never happened before. And I hate to say this because we haven’t set it up yet, but we want to do a site where everyone who bought a record would be able to stream various other things we put up, like an old recording of when I first experimented with pitch-bending back in ‘81. People could get a clearer version of how we wound up where we did. It seems more mysterious based on the records that were released because it seems like we went from a Cramps/Birthday Party band, to a noisy Jesus and Mary Chain indie pop band, to what we became in ‘88. But if you hear what we did before that, you can see how we were just playing around. It’s not what it seems.”

You can read the full interview right now over at Pitchfork.