Pitchfork reviews the re-issue of Psychocandy by Scottish duo The Jesus and Mary Chain:
"Sometimes people tell you that a 20-year-old album “sounded like nothing else,” but when you listen with today’s ears, it seems rather quaint and unsurprising. Psychocandy is not one of those albums. Its noise isn’t the thick, tactile noise of the new millennium: It’s thin, trebly, and drowned in indistinct reverb, such that this record still sounds like it’s being played in the apartment across the street at staggering volume while someone intermittently runs glass through a table saw."
I can't claim to like these guys even 1/10 as much as this reviewer seems to. My impression was based just on their visuals, JMC seeming to be a skinnier, more hetero, scarier Scottish version of the Cure. Their main proponent in our dormitory, circa 1986, was a skinny goth fellow whose two piece thrift-store windsor plaid suit had been carefully adorned with a Sharpie-tracing of the Bauhaus profile (or maybe it was the Neubauten Man).











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