My Bloody Valentine plans to record a new EP this fall, according to Kevin Shields. The frontman told NME yesterday that he was "working on some new songs at the moment" that would form the basis of an EP.
As NME notes, the release has been in the works since last year's m b v album. The band, however, is only now preparing to record the songs. Shields confirmed that the group will head to the studio around October or November.
The new EP will follow up My Bloody Valentine's third studio album, which was their first release of new material since their sophomore album, 1991's Loveless. NME points out that the record was left off the Mercury Prize shortlist because the group didn't have a major distribution deal.
Back in August 2013, Shields discussed the band's future releases with Pitchfork saying:
"The next step is to make an EP of all-new material. I'm also going to re-master Loveless and 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."
We'll keep you updated as more information on the release becomes available.
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