The Jesus And Mary Chain
Just Like Honey / Head

THE REVIEW

Voice as Reed's alter ego, feedback steeped in delight and incisive melodic cacophonies.

All this is the voice of "Psychocandy," a pivotal moment for the Jesus And Mary Chain. We are in 1985, and the band has hit it big with a sensational debut. Nothing better could have been done.

They masterfully anticipate by a year "The Perfect Prescription" by Spacemen 3, another excellent example of the Sixties revival. English and American psychedelia are regenerated by readapting the stylings of Red Krayola, the Byrds, and the Velvet. The loop is the God one starts to believe in.

Everything that could be noise seasoned with feedback and obscured voices was fine. The wattage is turned up even more, the drums are completely assaulted by the strings, and the trick is done. A new genre has been founded.

A plasticized psychedelia.

"You Trip Me Up" is the other single released in 1985, and here too we notice a completely innovative conception of playing guitar and the rest. It's literally a drone shot at full throttle.

"Just Like Honey" is their "Heroin." A honeyed ballad dissolved in acid. Finally, the West Coast melodies have succeeded in re-emerging and detaching from the industrial/post-punk cauldron. The track has "Head" as a B-side, another exercise with feedback and similar fortunes, but nothing manages to be as beautiful as the A-side.

"I'll be your plastic toy"