A new My Bloody Valentine album is "100%" being released in 2018

Speaking to Pitchfork, Shields revealed that the band began the album last year but took a break to work on remastered editions of Loveless and Isn't Anything.

"Basically, the record started off as an EP, and I realized it has to be, like, a mini-album, because it’s going to be at least 40 minutes long," Shields tells Pitchfork. "So it's going to be an album, but I don’t really know how many tracks it’s going to be. It’ll probably be seven or eight, by the looks of it."

Shields also says that My Bloody Valentine are looking to play shows next year: "We’re going to play live again, so that’s always a really good way to guarantee that we’ll get the record done..."

The rumours of a new LP began swirling about a new LP in a profile for Shields on the website for Sigur Rós' festival Norður og Niður - it revealed that Shields is "working on material for a new My Bloody Valentine album to be released in 2018." A new shirt has also popped up on My Bloody Valentine's store - not normally big news, but as fans on Reddit note, the band's merch usually follows direct from their releases' artwork, and this new one is titled 'mbv fuzz'. Bandmate Colm Ó Cíosóig recently spoke to radio station WBUR, and when asked about the future of My Bloody Valentine he candidly replied: "It's in the making."

The various members of My Bloody Valentine have kept themselves pretty busy lately - Shields recently joined forces with Brian Eno for a particularly exciting collaboration just last week - while Cíosóig has been playing with Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval as part of The Warm Inventions. Despite this, they seem to have found time to work on the follow up to 2013's comeback LP m b v.