The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy (33 1/3)

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The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy (33 1/3)

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 â€“ calling out to phantoms Candy and Honey with an unsettling charm â€“ 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.

Country	USA
Author	Paula Mejia
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	1
EISBN	9781628929522
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Bloomsbury Academic
Manufacturer	Bloomsbury Academic
NumberOfPages	136
PublicationDate	2016-10-20
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
ReleaseDate	2016-10-20
Studio	Bloomsbury Academic

The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy (33 1/3)

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