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Photo: Lady Jaye and Genesis from the internet, see post below this.
“I’ve been involved in a total war with culture since the day I started… I am at war with the status quo of society and I am at war with those in control and power. I’m at war with hypocrisy and lies, I’m at war with the mass media. Then I’m at war with every bastard who tries to hurt someone else for its own sake. And I’m at war with privilege and I’m at war with all the things that one should be at war with basically.”
“I’m 38 and for all my faults I have spent most of those 38 years searching determinedly for ideas that work and ideas that help. Not everyone maybe, but some people. If they work and if they make any kind of sense, the only way to check is to give them to other people and see if it works. If it helps one or two or ten or fifteen, that’s a massive improvement on what most human beings do in their life to help anyone. If it helps a few hundred or a few thousand, that’s incredible”
Genesis P-Orridge, 1989
This is actually looking more and more like it’s going to happen, the Guardian UK has an article and sound samples of the upcoming remastered reissue of Loveless vs. the original version and there is a really revealing Pitchfork interview with Kevin Shields about how they were basically held prisoner by record label dirty tricks for years and years. In both the interviews he says 2012 is going to see a new MBV album AND HE INTIMATES THAT HE HAS HAD AT LEAST PARTLY FINISHED MATERIAL IN THE CAN SINCE THE 1990S!!!. This is a direct reversal of previous statements that seemed to have said he had no worthy material and has been discarding sub-par product because of perfectionism. In light of record label scorched earth policies this subterfuge kind of makes sense. Kevin Shields rarely breaks cover and for him to be suddenly engineering media exposure and contradicting what was thought to be set in stone isn’t normal or happenstance. He doesn’t seem to to ever show his cards and has said he would never release an MBV album unless he could equal or top Loveless.
1991 seems like a couple lifetimes ago but Loveless still inspires awe, listening to it is like gazing into a beauty the brain can’t quite comprehend. I hope this happens and I hope it was worth the wait because Loveless sails in some pretty rarified air. Guitar rock needs a kick in the ass right now and odds are that if a new MBV album sees the light of day it’s not going to be gentle and unassuming. It’s going to be big and loud. Just waves and fucking waves of big and paint-peeling loud.
