The Jesus and Mary Chains 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 bands 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 whod had enough; Psychocandy gestures toward the perverse pleasure in having your eardrums exploded and loudness as a politics within itself. Yet Psychocandys blackened candy heart center ndash; calling out to phantoms Candy and Honey with an unsettling charm ndash; 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 musics relation to ourselves.
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