Do Not Resuscitate

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Available from 07/02/2011

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MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD

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2011

Sometime toward the end of 2006, MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD vanished. They had just spent a solid two years promoting their third record, Merciless, with a grueling tour schedule that had taken them, quite literally, around the world from Sao Paulo to Helsinki; from Seattle to Cape Town; from Lisbon to Auckland and their final show at CBGB on the Bowery. And then, suddenly, they were gone. No shows, no updates, no interviews nothing. They didn’t even issue the typical (and ominous) were taking a break memo. The line had simply gone dead. MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD from New York City had disappeared without a trace. Then, in early 2007, the band released a cryptic statement through their record label expressing their desire to bow out of the mass appeal madness, declaring they wanted nothing to do with the glossy culture anymore. And that was it again. Not another word for the rest of the year. Naturally, rumors swirled almost immediately about a break-up, line-up changes, record company disputes, members being detained in and/or relocating to foreign countries, members splitting up to start various new projects, etc. Truth be told, no one really knew what to think. Word eventually spread that MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD had begun work on a new album. They didn’t have any songs for us to hear just yet, but they had a title: Do Not Resuscitate. Do Not Resuscitate? MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD was writing a living will? By now MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD had been off the road for three years and everything was changing. Suffice to say, in the Internet age, it wasn’t very hard for fans to work themselves into a lather conjuring up the bands whereabouts or future plans. The less we knew, the more rumors grew. Then, in early 2009, MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD updated their atrophied website, simply posting a picture of someone holding a Memorex CD-R. MPB DNR 1-19-09 Final Mixes was written on the disc in blue ink. But as soon as their fans were about to exhale, the website remained this way for the next year without any further updates or press releases and we were back where we started: wondering. Was this what the band had so proudly alluded to years prior when they said they were bowing out of the mass appeal madness and wanted nothing to do with the glossy culture anymore? Finally, here we are about to stick a fork in 2010 and set the table for 2011 some five years have passed since MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD played a show but we still care and were still waiting. Were patient because we know they’re real. We wait because we know they’ll deliver eventually. The calendar and the clock have become irrelevant to MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD and I think, in a way, we admire that. Lets be honest: a band like MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD doesn’t name their record Do Not Resuscitate unless they’ve got nothing left to lose and this is when a band is at their best when they have nothing to prove and they don’t owe anything to anyone. This may be the best Dear John letter we’ve ever fucking heard.



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