The Jesus and Mary Chain – Glasgow Eyes
While Glasgow Eyes is no Psychocandy, it is without doubt a true-to-form The Jesus and Mary Chain record
Feedback, fuzz, chaos and misrule spring to mind when it comes to The Jesus and Mary Chain. In this regard, their latest outing, Glasgow Eyes, does not disappoint. The album features all of this from the very offset of opening track Venal Joy. This opening is less a declaration that they are back, but instead a challenge to those who might think they ever went away; Venal Joy is as loud, as frenetic and as uncompromising as ever.
More classic Mary Chain elements become apparent as the album progresses, with the bubblegum fizz, harmonies and melodic guitar of Second of June and the self-referential jamcod – a song in which they seem to be paying homage to themselves, and who can blame them? We all love a bit of nostalgia, and this album is laced with it.
Clearly age has had no mellowing effect on Glasgow’s, or, perhaps more precisely, East Kilbride’s most notorious musical misfits and, while Glasgow Eyes is no Psychocandy, it is without doubt a true-to-form The Jesus and Mary Chain album and, for that reason alone, worth the listen.
Listen to: Venal Joy, jamcod, Second of June