Have you heard the new one, mbv? Wow, never imagined that a followup to Loveless some 20+ years later would sound so good, so right, so harmonically in sync with the world. And then towards the end, when you're thinking, "Well yeah, but why couldn't they have just done this 15 or 20 years ago, before all the endless string of imitators that never got it ever so quite right", and then those last few songs take it in some new direction that we can only hope keeps coming from MBV. And I don't mean in another 20 years. Those last 3 songs that close it out are pretty spectacular, with a blend of shoegazer guitar sound washes, and industrial, and trance, and maybe even free form jazz.



Completely unexpected... who really believed all the rumors... and completely entrancing. Silly to say in February, I know, but probably record of the year. I like this a lot.