The Jesus and Mary Chain
Psychocandy

THE REVIEW

I don't consider the Jesus and Mary Chain a great band, they don't say much to me overall, but there is one of their albums that speaks volumes to me.
It's called "Psycho Candy," and it is the first album by the aforementioned Scots, from 1985.
When talking about Shoegaze, many rightly mention My Bloody Valentine as the main representatives of the movement, but the Jesus, a few years earlier, laid the foundation by releasing this splendid album.

Simple melodies and a voice that comes from afar, almost ethereal, it seems, but extremely intense, all literally covered by a cascade of feedback and distortion, which at certain moments creates a sonic wall of levels never seen before.
The opening track is the beautiful "Just Like Honey" (probably known by some as the final song of Lost in Translation), which introduces us to what will be a crescendo of distorted sounds bordering on noise until the splendid "The Hardest Walk" and "In a Hole".
There is also room for ballads like "Cut Dead," "Some Candy Talking," and "Sowing Seeds" before returning to those almost cacophonic melodies, concluding with the last three "unlistenable" tracks, someone might say. "You Trip Me Up," "Something's Wrong," and "It's so Hard".

Ultimately, an album that owes much both to the famous punk fury, the more depressed kind, and to certain typically dark cadences, while passing through the melancholic pop of the Smiths.