My Bloody Underground is the tenth studio album by American psychedelic rock band the Brian Jonestown Massacre, released on April 15, 2008[6] on A Records, a label set up by the band's leader, Anton Newcombe.
[6] The title of the album was originally believed to be a homage to the bands My Bloody Valentine, the Velvet Underground, and the Jesus and Mary Chain, being a combination of first two names (similar to the name of the band being a portmanteau of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones and the Jonestown Massacre) and a play on track name "My Little Underground" by the Jesus and Mary Chain.
[citation needed] Rough mixes of many of the songs from the sessions were first made available on the band's MySpace page,[8] and then as a pre-release download from the official website on September 3, 2007.
[7] My Bloody Underground contains more experimental sounds than previous BJM albums,[citation needed] especially with a collaboration with Mark Gardener, formerly of Ride, who co-wrote the song 'Monkey Powder'.
The space rock/neo-psychedelia sound of the album can be attributed to Newcombe's large intake of psychedelic drugs and adopting a "no talking in the studio" policy while recording.