Books
-
£ 11.99
- Ex Tax: £ 11.99
The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Book - by Paula Mejia
(2016)
The Jesus and Mary Chain's swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and through the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within pop music forever. Post-punk and pro-confusion, Psychocandy became the sound of a generation poised on the brink of revolution, establishing Creation Records as a tastemaking entity in the process. The Scottish band's notorious live performances were both punishingly loud and riot-spurring, inevitably acting as socio-political commentary on tensions emergent in mid-1980s Britain.
Through caustic clangs and feedback channeling the rage of the working-class who'd had enough, Psychocandy gestures toward the perverse pleasure in having your eardrums exploded and loudness as a politics within itself. Yet Psychocandy's blackened candy heart center - calling out to phantoms Candy and Honey with an unsettling charm - makes it a pop album to the core, and not unlike the sugarcoated sounds the Ronettes became famous for in the 1960s. The Jesus and Mary Chain expertly carved out a place where depravity and sweetness entwined, emerging from the isolating underground of suburban Scotland grasping the distinct sound of a generation, apathetic and uncertain.
The irresistible Psychocandy emerged as a clairvoyant account of struggle and sweetness that still causes us to grapple with pop music's relation to ourselves.
You May Also Like
Music To Die For - a...
Goth,Post Punk and Psychobilly - Book - by Mick Mercer
£ 20.99 Ex Tax: £ 20.99
Bet My Soul on Rock ...
Jean Beauvoir / Plasmatics - Book - by Jean Beauvoir
£ 21.99 Ex Tax: £ 21.99
Tumult! : The Incred...
Tina Turner - Book - by Donald Brackett
£ 17.99 Ex Tax: £ 17.99
Death To Trad Rock
Post-Punk Scene 1982-87 - Book - by John Robb
£ 18.99 Ex Tax: £ 18.99
The Complete Misfits...
Misfits / Glenn Danzig - Book - by Robert Michael Cotter
£ 39.99 Ex Tax: £ 39.99
Koji Kondo's Super M...
Koji Kondo's - Book - by Andrew Schartmann
£ 11.99 Ex Tax: £ 11.99