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hazelwould wrote:

bob the r0bot wrote:Today's the day guys; Both versions of Loveless, the new Isn't Anything, and the collection of EP's and unreleased material are out. Unfortunately, they're only in the UK at the moment so my US bound brothers will have to wait.

That's a shame.

J-Fuzz wrote: Also, Shields said in an interview tonight on some BBC radio show that 8 of 9 songs that will be the new album are complete. Shootin' for a release by the end of July (2012).

D.o.S. wrote:I actually laughed out loud when I read that.

Spiteface wrote:I'm sure you may have heard about this already, but if not, it's worth knowing.

Shit's gone wrong with the Loveless remaster.

In short, 2 things:

The discs are not labelled correctly. CD 1 is actually the "analogue" version, and CD 2 is the Digital remaster.

There's also an audible transfer glitch at 2:46 on the Analogue version of "What You Want"

Somehow I didn't notice this, but it was there on the version that leaked online in 2008. So Kevin Shields had 4 years to fix the glitch, and could have at least checked the discs were labelled right before everything was pressed up.

It's a damn shame, as it does sound superb.

lucas wrote:On a side note - what does everyone think of Touched? I've tried listening to it many times over and over again but it still shits me. Maybe I'm hearing something different to other people but it annoys me..

If you listen closely to the remaster of Only Shallow, the album's opening track, you can hear the precise moment when the four male cats having sex inside the Fender Twin Reverb amp reach their terrible, wailing climax.

Those familiar with the album will be shocked to hear newly-audible bass guitar tracks, discrediting the longstanding theory that "Debbie Googe" is a silly name Kevin Shields made up.

NASA audio experts are unable to identify precisely what's been changed about the third track, Colm O'Ciosoig's oddball instrumental "Touched," because by popular demand most modern CD players include special firmware that automatically skips it.

The audio isn't the only thing that's been improved: on the newly-enhanced album cover, it's now possible to make out that the iconic pink-tinted Jazzmaster guitar is being played with a muffin.

On the second disc, mastered from the original half-inch analogue tapes, we can hear for the first time that the record's intricate feedback layers and inimitable swirls of tremolo-gliding guitar were digital mastering errors and My Bloody Valentine was actually a workmanlike third-wave ska band.

Spiteface wrote:So Kevin Shields had 4 years to fix the glitch, and could have at least checked the discs were labelled right before everything was pressed up.