★★★★★
Limited edition box set to mark JAMC's 30th... When it was introduced in the early 1980s, the CD promised "perfect sound forever", a claim as much about its robustness as its sonic superiority over vinyl. Still, at the heart of the current revival is the conviction that vinyl sounds infinitely better than a CD - less shrill, artificially loud and uncomfortably compressed, far warmer, more intimate and with a stronger perceived connectivity...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2014-02-11
★★★★★
As Christmas looms and last-minute present ideas abound for music lovers everywhere, the deluxe box set seems ready made to plug such aural holes. Increasingly, this year, the trend has been towards vinyl sets covering an artist's full catalogue - be it Suede, The Clash or Can. Making a late entry but entirely deserving of your attention is this gloriously assembled package of the (almost) complete works of The Jesus And Mary Chain...
- www.clashmusic.com
2013-12-20
★★★★★
Although it might be difficult to comprehend now, the Jesus And Mary Chain was a total revelation when it appeared amid the ocean of dull-yet-worthy indie pop that made up so much of the mid-'80s British music scene. Initially greeted with hate and bile, 1985 debut Psychocandy wasn't so much a breath of fresh air as it was a speed- and booze-addled belch of intent...
- www.magnetmagazine.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Following their striking debut and an avalanche of fuzz which launched the shoegazer movement, Darklands probably remains the Jesus & Mary Chain's best album, finding the perfect balance between noise, pop, folk and the robotic rhythms, four ingredients that are inherent to their discography that they explored separately on different releases...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Automatic is the first CD I ever bought as its release coincided with the arrival of CD players on the market, and to this day it remains a classic in my music collection. More important than my own little personal stories, this was also a time of transition when rock morphed into electronic. Automatic also established a new direction for The Jesus & Mary Chain, this time fully embracing electronic in their rock...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
I know it might be surprising, but Honey's Dead is my favorite Jesus & Mary Chain album, probably because it's the darkest, the most dangerous and extreme, pushing the boundaries of their sound. Honey's Dead gloriously brought back the fuzz of Psychocandy, this time associating it with danceable electronic rhythms, the logical continuation of the more primitive approach of electronic and the reflection of a musical era marked by bands such as Happy Mondays and Primal Scream...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
When you've opened your musical career with a record as caustic, reactionary and as brutal as , just where the hell do you go next? Jim and William Reid, the brothers whose relationship had given 's debut (and accompanying gigs) much of its bittersweet volatility, chose to surprise everyone, including probably themselves, with Darklands...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Depending on your disposition, the Jesus And Mary Chain are either the founding fathers of every brave new rock revolution since the '80s or the first harbingers of post-post-punk, canonical retrogression. But indubitably without Jim and William Reid there would be no Creation Records, no Primal Scream, no MBV, no Oasis, no Libertines, and, of course, no Viva Brother...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2011-10-11
★★★★★
"Wouldn't it be great if Einsturzende Neubaten had Shangri-Las songs?" - Jim Reid. And so heralds the starting point for The Jesus & Mary Chain, a band totally out of place upon their arrival in 1984 yet whose influence and legacy has lived on for three decades since. Indeed, as an impressionable schoolboy in the dead end mining town of Mansfield during the mid-Eighties, hearing the ear-splitting squall of 'You Trip Me Up' sounded like nothing else on earth...
- drownedinsound.com
2011-10-03
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