The Jesus and Mary Chain play their milestone album Darklands in full length on their upcoming tour (click here to check dates and buy tickets). Our author Shawn Ciavattone reviewed the album and talked to Jim Reid about the album, touring, and the band’s influences. The Jesus and Mary Chain play Darklands – the tour …
The follow-up to The Jesus and Mary Chain’s debut album was never going to be an easy task for our heroes from Scotland. Rarely does a band put together all the pieces of sound, attitude and songwriting skills the way they did on Psychocandy (1985). A unique mix of early rock’n’roll, surf and dense, dissonant …
This album was inspired by the 1971 American road movie ‘Vanishing Point’ directed by Richard C. Sarafian and is an attempt to write an alternative soundtrack to the film. Bobby Gillespie stated “The music in the film is hippy music, so we thought, ‘Why not record some music that really reflects the mood of the …
