MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD
DO NOT RESUSCITATE

2008. 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 band’s 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 we’re still waiting. We’re 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. Let’s 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.