{"product_id":"9781628929508","title":"The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Paula Mejia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781628929508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40596643152078,"sku":"9781628929508","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_dc813d7e-1717-439c-be95-9caf8c6a650f.jpg?v=1637863592","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781628929508","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}