My Bloody Valentine - mbv

Everything seems okay here, I just downloaded the 24 bit WAVs and it only took 3 minutes to download.

Can't wait to hear this!

is it true the 320 download is just a 128 transcode? if so, lol.

I just saw that as well, if these pictures are accurate that's insane they're getting away with it! For anyone that doesn't want to search about this is a comparison someone put up here:

320 mp3:

24 bit lossless:

Fantastic 1st listen, it's an amazing whole. The way it keeps on building up towards the finales 2 or 3 tracks is mad.

It sounds like the perfect Loveless follow-up yet it's not Loveless Bis at all.

Loving the production as well, I don't know how they've succeeded in making everything sound so huge, I mean both individual instruments AND songs at the same time. Usually, if you make every single guitar/drums/etc... huge then you'll get a thin sounding song. But here, they don't.

  On 2/3/2013 at 10:54 AM, pigster said:

 

  On 2/3/2013 at 9:21 AM, psn said:

BTW, last track needs more jet plane.

 

deciding on the volume of jet plane on last track is probably what was delaying this album for so long.

"wait. shit, stop the upload. jet plane needs to be turned just a bit down on last track."

LOL. I had to go listen back for the plane, and then I was like "Hey! That's no plane!"

  On 2/3/2013 at 5:12 PM, SPD² said:

 

  On 2/3/2013 at 10:54 AM, pigster said:

 

  On 2/3/2013 at 9:21 AM, psn said:

 

BTW, last track needs more jet plane.

deciding on the volume of jet plane on last track is probably what was delaying this album for so long.

"wait. shit, stop the upload. jet plane needs to be turned just a bit down on last track."

LOL. I had to go listen back for the plane, and then I was like "Hey! That's no plane!"

This shit is pretty great.

  On 2/3/2013 at 5:33 AM, jefferoo said:

I mean, they are old people now and they are able to put out a HIGHLY experimental album with catchy hooks, heavy-as-fuck guitars and playful chord progressions that still have a youthful sense of playfulness.

maybe we can live in a better world. a world where people can be over 40 and still make awesome music. all those years of experience should make you better. My generation watched amazing baby boomers become awful stale musicians after they hit 40..but maybe it was just them and not a phenomenon. I really hope so.

ps.. you reckon Kevin has been living off royalties all these years?

wonder 2 is just...

i keep wishing that the songs, particularly 4-5 and 8-9 would blend into each other like tortoise's tnt final songs, they kinda share a theme/dominant element so that would be really cool and make the album much more albumy.

This is pretty nice. Nice enveloping production etc but nothing is really fucking me up in the way I hoped it would. I guess I was holding out for something a little bit more experimental.

Feel dumb for even posting an opinion tbh as it hasn't even been out for 24 hrs.

  On 2/3/2013 at 6:47 PM, Lucy Faringold said:

This is pretty nice. Nice enveloping production etc but nothing is really fucking me up in the way I hoped it would. I guess I was holding out for something a little bit more experimental.

 

Feel dumb for even posting an opinion tbh as it hasn't even been out for 24 hrs.

at least you're not basing your opinion on 30 second clips, and deeming it unsatisfactory due to said clips

after 8 hours of sleep i can confirm this is still amazing.

I think this one might be my favorite, so far...

\http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ0axgeNbWU

  On 2/3/2013 at 6:15 PM, marf said:

 

 

ps.. you reckon Kevin has been living off royalties all these years?

he was a gigging member of primal scream for quite a few years...

$16 for a 320 mp3? wtf

Money well spent. Get the LP bundle. Those LPs are limited.

  On 2/3/2013 at 7:45 PM, jefferoo said:

Money well spent.

love this album, this band.

  On 2/3/2013 at 7:36 PM, jules said:

$16 for a 320 mp3? wtf

the price is the same for lossless, also that 320kbits mp3 is probably a 128kbps transcoded mp3, lol.

  On 2/3/2013 at 6:51 PM, whylessness said:

after 8 hours of sleep i can confirm this is still amazing.

I still think the last three tracks are a mess . I was hoping this was going to be a 10/10 for me.

last three tracks are where the album really takes off. wonder 2 is one of the more forward thinking pieces of music i've heard recently. amazing album.

is this real?

i am downloading the 24bit wavs

and the vinyl is on order.

is it real?

  On 2/3/2013 at 8:10 PM, oscillik said:

is this real?

 

i am downloading the 24bit wavs

 

and the vinyl is on order.

 

is it real?

  On 2/3/2013 at 7:45 PM, jefferoo said:

Money well spent. Get the LP bundle. Those LPs are limited.

Umm, what's telling you that they're limited, besides our finite nature?

I'm really fucking into this. It's a LOUD album. Crank it up and it feels live. Astonishing recording, and some bloody (see what I did there) great songs