Psychocandy

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The Jesus and Mary Chain’s swooning debut ‘Psychocandy’ seared through the underground and to the top of the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within pop music forever. Post-punk and pro-confusion, it became the sound of a generation poised on the brink of revolution, establishing Creation Records as a taste making entity in the process.

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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.

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Weight 0.132 kg
Dimensions 16.5 × 12.1 × 0.9 cm
Book_author

Mejia, Paula

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Imprint

Bloomsbury Academic

Cover

Paperback

Pages

xii, 124

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

782.42166 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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