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There's been a lot of talk over the years about the hundreds of hours of material that Shields has recorded on his own (and in studios booked as My Bloody Valentine) since 1993, and the few people who have heard it (industry folks, label people footing the bill, friends of Shields) have claimed that it's brilliant. But I would expect his friends and flacks to be the first people to proclaim that it's genius.
All of the work he's released since Loveless that I've heard hasn't been mindblowing, but it's been pretty interesting. His "MBV Arkestra" song on XTRMNTR is really amazing, so I'd hope that if he makes a full length LP it'll take off from there. In a number of Primal Scream interviews, they've said that he's been working on making a solo album, but he keeps getting behind on it, and apparently he's very nervous about it all. It seems that he's as much of a drugged-out depressive as he is an obsessive perfectionist recluse.
I saw Primal Scream a few years ago, the last time they ever played in New York. Shields was on guitar the whole night, and it was a strange sort of feeling to be about ten feet away from him, it felt kind of unreal. The whole band was great, and there were three guitar players on almost every song, so it was hard to tell how good he was - he wasn't even particularly interesting to look at. It was purely conceptual, "THAT'S KEVIN SHIELDS!", as if he was a fictional character or something. |
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