Psychocandy. (L.P) The Jesus & Mary Chain. 1985.
Just when rock had been buried under an avalanche of synth-pop and the boots and leather trousers/pants had been shed for baggies and designer trainers, along came The Jesus & Mary Chain with 'Psychocandy'. The band, all back-combed hair and sullen faces eschewed image in favour of isolation and determination. A determination to drag rock music back to its nucleus of distorted guitars and doom laden vocals. They were apostles of noise in a world of noise abators, sworn enemies of the swarm of pop-poodles especially bred by Saturday morning kid's TV. Their gigs were never more than 15 minutes long, a wall of tooth-drilling feedback, concluded by a burst of violence. In the event it was triumphal, as complete a rock noise as the eighties produced. 'Never Understand', 'Just Like Honey', 'You Trip Me Up' and 'In A Hole' were huge noble cliffs of sound, brooding and brilliant...
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