The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy

The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 137
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ISBN-10 : 9781628929515
ISBN-13 : 1628929510
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Book Synopsis The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy by : Paula Mejia

Download or read book The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy written by Paula Mejia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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