New My Bloody Valentine Album to Debut This Year, Says Kevin Shields

According to NME, the 21 year-long-album-in-the-making from Irish shoegazers My Bloody Valentine will finally be released later this year, said frontman Kevin Shields. The album, which has yet to be named, will be available on Shields' website before the year is out. This will be the group's unvailing of new music since their classic 1991 album, "Loveless."

"I think with this record, people who like us will immediately connect with something," said Shields. "Based on the very, very few people who’ve heard stuff – some engineers, the band, and that’s about it – some people think it’s stranger than 'Loveless'. I don’t. I feel like it really frees us up, and in the bigger picture it’s 100 per cent necessary."

In an interview with Pitchfork in April, Shields stated that the group had started working on another album that would was planned to succeed "Loveless" but was halted after the group split up. The new album will contain those unreleased songs, soon followed by an EP of more new material set for release next year.