Reformed Shoegazing types My Bloody Valentine and the Jesus and Mary Chain have revealed initial snippits of information about new albums, which might see the light of day at some point in 2008.
Both bands speak through the discombobulated voices of their management, thusly. Said JAMC string-puller Kevin Oberlin "We thought having the band reunite for Coachella would help set up both of their solo albums, but the very next day after the show, Jim and William did an interview and said that they were going to do a new Mary Chain album." And what does it sound like? "I would say it's an evolution. It definitely sounds like the Mary Chain, but I guess you evolve as a person and a writer. You can't really stand still. If you do that, you're lost." Who bets it'll be rubbish! "The band has been making decisions on their own terms without a lot of outside pressures and taking things slow," Oberlin says.
My Bloody Valentine are also to head into the studio, with an album planned for release next year. Speculation abounds as to whether this will be new material, or the stuff that Kevin Shields has been intimately fiddling with in the years since 'Loveless' came out. Their manager told Billboard that the band were probably going to release the album on the internet themselves, though it wouldn't be free. There will apparently also be a vinyl version.
In other news, Steve Queralt from Ride is selling upmarket furniture in a shop outside Oxford.
