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enough of this madness
people of dis, take a collective deep breath, and calm the fuck down
its an album, not even a classic for reasons other then it took a while. Stop geeking out over it and stop paying pointless threads
calm down mate, its just an album
Exactly
so shut up about it, alreet
calm the fuck down
enough of this madness. its an album. Stop geeking out over, take a collective deep breath, and stop paying pointless threads. enough of this madness. not even a classic for reasons.
calm the fuck down Yesiamaduck.
*Reworked Sawdust and Diamonds lyrics.
more reviews in
http://www.anydecentmusic.com/review/5206/My-Bloody-Valentine-mbv.aspx
Nobody is calming down, anywhere.
Alexis Petridis has given it 5 stars
fair enough...http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/feb/04/mbv-review-my-bloody-valentine
breathe
The reviews I've read so far are pretty damn average
which isn't surprising considering they haven't really spent much time with the record yet, it shows that they're still pretty unsure about what they're reviewing. Kinda throws credibility out the window a bit.
Do you mean average ratings or the reviews themselves are averagely written?
So far the album got good ratings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBV_(album)
Averagely written
they just seem really rushed and uninteresting. Don't really say a whole lot that hasn't been said on these forums already.
I agree
They're all along the lines of:
1. Hasn't it been a long time?
2. They're never going to live up to Loveless!
3. The first three sound like Loveless
4. The second three are a slight variation (ooh look, no guitars, ooh look, the most poppy thing they've ever done)
5. The last three are futuresville and where we hope they go
I'm only on three listens, and liking it - it certainly encourages me to relisten, and I'm surprised that New You is such an earworm. I think some of the reviewers may have gone too far with their praise - it's like they've missed out a lot of the invention and development of the last 20 years or something.
I do agree that STILL nobody else really sounds like them. there are lots of shoegaze bands, but none of them have that woozy intensity that MBV have. I think Lilys got closest a long time back.
even Dom's?
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4146008-first-listen--24-hours-with-mbv
dom's doesn't really read like a 'review' though
which is a lot better for something like this, imo.
I quite enjoyed reading this
but it doesn't pretend to be an be-all-end-all kind of review, just a "first 24 hours impression" kinda thing, so it works in that respect. A lot of websites have passed off judgement on the album only having listened to it for maybe about a day, and there's no way you can come to a reliable conclusion about it while still being caught up in the hype. And it shows in the quality of the writing and in the lack of variation in review style. As funkycow said above, they all say basically the same, unimaginative things with little depth at all.
Yeah, we're holding off for maybe a month to run a proper review. Let it really sink in. Think Dom might do a 7 days with... next week too. Keep 'em peeled.
That sounds like a good idea
It'll be interesting to see what people think of it then, after the initial gloss has worn off. I look forward to reading it!
I really want to get into this like I did Loveless while at sixth form
but everytime I scan my cursor over it... I think... ah, I could listen to something fun instead.
It's more fun than you might think
Tracks are a lot more dancey than Loveless, songs like If I Am are really uplifting and groovy. Can I refer to something as groovy and not sound tragic? I don't know if I can.
The thing with mbv is that the more you listen to it, the more you will like it
A bit of patience is required.
For example
this group of 4 songs - Is This and Yes, If I Am, New You, In Another Way - is the most accessible IMO. Focus on few songs and then move to the next ones.
Also, unless you were in sixth form in 2012
It's pretty bloody difficult to recapture that youthful excitement. But jaded cynicism has it rewards toom, dammit!
You make a good point
It would be very difficult for m b v to capture a feeling that for a lot of us reflected burgeoning interest in music in our youth. I was coming into it from Depeche Mode or the Cure as a starter, and that's a world apart.
Clearly m b v can't be a game changer now as Loveless was then because music seems to have diversified so much in the last 20 years.
What even counts as 'experimental' today? I know when I read that in any mainstream review, I'm normally very disappointed when I listen to the record they're reviewing. Mashed potato is experimental if your only experience of potatoes is chips. Otherwise, it's just mashed potato.
mashed potato is experimental
who really knows how much milk and butter to add?
I predict that at least 62% of reviews of this album will feature some variation on the line,
"the innovator has become the imitator".
http://spinalbap.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/spinal-baps-track-by-track-review-of-my.html
LMAO
‘She Found Now’ is an urgently contemporary disco number which proves that even in middle age Shields remains the incontestable queen of the dance floor.
i didnt really want to write a review but my editor asked me so
http://www.contactmusic.com/album-review/my-bloody-valentine-mbv-album-review
'in another way' is the albums, and perhaps the years highlight,..
Yes. It's the best song from m b v.
i mean that i think it might be the best song (IMO) of the year IN TOTAL
Still, there many months left...
i have a calendar.
Look at Mr Digital over here
Nice review man,
easily the best written one I've seen so far
oh you *giggles*
Pitchfork review is up:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17726-mbv/
Seeing as this is a thread about reviews, I’ll nerd out a little: I like the write-up, but as is the case with a lot of Pitchfork reviews (imo etc), it lacks the necessary breathlessness to justify its thoroughness and leaves the writer’s gut-level emotional and physical responses too dimly implied. The correct approach to this record is somewhere between Mark Richardson and Alexis Petridis’s reviews, although I enjoyed reading both.
That said
Listening to Who Sees You at the moment, I can see the pensive gloom they're talking about - almost oppressive like Tim Hecker's Ravedeath.
Finished that review, and I think it's pretty good.
has anyone made a MBV song title generator yet?
my favourite is tomorrow only her
i don't know if this has been mentioned yet
but their song titles have always been rubbish.
yes, they have:
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4424683#r7315015
why are there titles so rubbish
why does Kevin Shields do anything?
I think their song titles well and truly refute the idea
that he spent the last 20 years thinking of them
9.1 from Pitchfork!
Finally! Everyone can now buy the album!!
you have the best username ever
It's approved!
:)))
It would be great if someone reviewed it blind
I didn't know they were releasing anything (not at this time anyway, I knew it was in the pipeline), so if some record reviewer was on holiday their boss could just send a pile of records and say "review these". Give it a fake name and see what they think. Probably that it is a shameless ripoff of MBV I suppose, but then Ringo Deathstarr didn't seem to do too badly out of that.
It'd also be good if someone reviewed it without having actually listened to it
and then we could see if anyone could tell the review apart from any other reviews. "Yeah, they've been away for ages, but they're back now and sound kinda the same but different". Might do it myself, actually.
please do
Popmatters seem to think it is acceptable
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/168044-my-bloody-valentine-m-b-v/
Though fairly controversial on the last two tracks being 'tedious'.
if you chose the mp3 format it seems like if you log in and re download them they are not the transcodes anymore
oh really?
sweet
This is brilliant
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a6J_eEERvdoFeRzyJikGqWkQmeh9Sme8RAv-GENk5LM/edit?pli=1
DiS' is up
http://drownedinsound.com/releases/17469/reviews/4146031
Good rating, not a fan of the review though.
A surprisingly really good review from TMT
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/my-bloody-valentine-m-b-v
I'll post my review when it's written
Although I'm sure it's gonna be a while before I actually get it done, I've listened to it a bunch of times and still haven't really got a grasp on it. It's certainly the least immediate thing they've ever done.
Nice review in The Wire today
They liked it.
And devoted a whole page to it
Very unlike Wire to pay attention to anything with any sort of hype surrounding it.