My Bloody Valentine set US headline tour

My Bloody Valentine have been slowly announcing their return, with a handful of festival performances, and have now announced a run of headline shows.

The band will play a series of North American gigs in July and August, which follow the band’s performance as part of the Robert Smith-curated Meltdown at the Southbank Centre in London.

“Oh, we one hundred percent will,” Kevin Shields told Pitchfork when asked if a new record from the band was set to come out in 2018.

Shields went on to describe the process of working on the record: “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.

“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.”

He then called the album “a sprawling EP”, saying: “It’s more like I’m making an EP, but I don’t want to be constrained to four songs or a certain length or anything. It’s really an EP but it’s a sprawling EP. I’m going to do a couple of them before I do an album”.

View the dates below.

JUNE
23 London, Royal Festival Hall (Meltdown Festival)

JULY
05 Denmark, Roskilde Festival
17 Seattle, Paramount
19 Oakland, Fox Theatre
22 Los Angeles, FYF Fest
25 St. Paul, Palace Theatre
27 Chicago, Riviera Theatre
30 Philadelphia, Fillmore

AUGUST
01 New York, Hammerstein Ballroom
17 Japan, Sonicmania