New My Bloody Valentine Times Two

09/25/08 5:16pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

People who like hearing guitars that go "aaaawoooooooooo" in a live setting rejoiced earlier this year when My Bloody Valentine announced they had reformed and would tour.

My Bloody Valentine only released two albums, 1988's Isn't Anything and 1991's Loveless, before they disbanded in 1997. They had been working on their third LP for Island Records before their break-up, but it was a painstaking process that was never finished because group leader Kevin Shields thought the songs weren't good enough.

But Shields says when he listened to My Bloody Valentine's old material and began the remastering process for the band's two albums, he thought he'd been wrong to scrap the sessions for the never-released third album.

"I realized that all that stuff I was doing in 1996 and 1997 was a lot better than I thought," Shields told The New York Times.

He now plans to return to those recordings and finish that album before recording a totally new one.

My Bloody Valentine's tour, for which they spent 200,000 pounds (about $390,000 Canadian) on equipment, hits Toronto's Kool Haus on Thursday night.