Unexpected news: Mary Timony’s coming out with a new album in May. Not only that, she played SXSW 2007 not once, but twice! Somehow, in all the Austin coverage I managed to miss this, so back into the interwebs for a scoop on what The Shapes We Make might sound like. What did I manage to dig up? Not much—the Onion AV Club was underwhelmed by her Saturday night set, which isn’t that surprising considering Timony’s stage presence has always been a bit shaky. Ah, but here’s word on what to expect from an unlikely source: MTV News. Yup, apparently they still have something to do with music! From James Montgomery’s notes:

Then, in one of those “Woah, look who’s playing?!?” moments that totally makes SXSW worth it, I glanced at my schedule and noticed that former Helium frontwoman/my teenage crush Mary Timony was about to take the stage at Emo’s tiny “IV” venue. So I rushed over and heard her unspool songs from her upcoming album The Shapes We Make, which were pretty excellent in that spacey, super-proggy “Revolution of Hearts, Pt. 1 & 2″ kind of way (OK, 14 people in the world know what I’m talking about right now, and most of them were probably at the show) …

If you’re one of the approximately 6.5 billion people in the world who didn’t know what Montgomery was talking about, fret not. You’re about to get an education. I bring you the eight-minute centerpiece to Helium’s fantastic final album, The Magic City: “The Revolution of Hearts Parts I & II.”