The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy Contributor(s): Mejia, Paula (Author) |
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ISBN: 1628929502 ISBN-13: 9781628929508 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Punk - Music | Genres & Styles - Rock - Biography & Autobiography |
Dewey: B |
Series: 33 1/3 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 4.7" W x 6.4" (0.30 lbs) 136 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |