{"product_id":"9781628929508","title":"Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy","description":"Author: Mejia,Paula\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781628929508\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 28 Sep 2016\u003cbr\u003ePages: 136 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Jesus and Mary Chain's swooning debut \u003ci\u003ePsychocandy\u003c\/i\u003e seared through the underground and through the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within pop music forever. Post-punk and pro-confusion, \u003ci\u003ePsychocandy\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003ePsychocandy\u003c\/i\u003e gestures toward the perverse pleasure in having your eardrums exploded and loudness as a politics within itself. \u003cbr\u003eYet \u003ci\u003ePsychocandy\u003c\/i\u003e'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 \u003ci\u003ePsychocandy\u003c\/i\u003e emerged as a clairvoyant account of struggle and sweetness that still causes us to grapple with pop music's relation to ourselves.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46619379335326,"sku":"UBD-9781628929508","price":19.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781628929508.jpg?v=1773898252","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781628929508","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}