MBV

MBV is the third studio album by alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine. It was released on 3 February 2013 in the United Kingdom and on 2 February 2013 in the United States.Following their departure from Creation Records after the release of their second studio album Loveless, My Bloody Valentine signed with Island Records in October 1992 for a reported £250,000 contract.The band's advance went towards the construction of a home studio in Streatham, South London, which was completed in April 1993. Several technical problems with the studio sent the band into "semi-meltdown", according to vocalist and guitarist Kevin Shields,who was rumoured to have been suffering from writer's block.The band recorded and released two cover songs from 1993 to 1996—a rendition of "We Have All the Time in the World" by Louis Armstrong for Peace Togetherand a cover of "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W" by Wire for the tribute album Whore: Tribute to Wire.Rumours had spread amongst fans of My Bloody Valentine that albums worth of material had been recorded and shelved prior to the band's break up in 1997. In 1999, it was reported that Shields had delivered 60 hours of material to Island Records,and vocalist and guitarist Bilinda Butcher confirmed that there "was probably enough songs to fill two albums."Shields later said that at least one full album of "half-finished" material was abandoned and "just [got] dumped, but it was worth dumping. It was dead. It hadn't got that spirit, that life in it."Bassist Debbie Googe has referred to MBV's recording as "a long process" and noted that Kevin Shields recorded most of the album's instrumentation. In an interview with Drowned in Sound, Googe revealed that the album's drum parts had "been added then taken off at least once"—with Shields' brother Jimi Shields recording inital drum tracks and Colm Ó Cíosóig recording final tracks.My Bloody Valentine confirmed the album's release through a post on the band's official Facebook page on 2 February 2013.