The Jesus And Mary Chain – “Always Sad”
ADA / Warner Music
The Jesus And Mary Chain have released “Always Sad,” the second new track from their upcoming album, ‘Damage and Joy’ (out March 24th on ADA / Warner Music). Last December, the band released “Amputation” and confirmed plans for their first new studio album in 18-years.
Fronted by the Reid brothers Jim and William, The Jesus And Mary Chain first reformed to play the Coachella festival back in 2007. Despite regular touring – most notably a 2015 world tour which revisited their landmark album ‘Psychocandy’ – it took some time before they could agree on a plan to record a much-mooted seventh album.
Work on ‘Damage and Joy’ (a reference to the English translation of schadenfreude) began in September 2015, with producer Youth also contributing bass and diplomacy to proceedings during sessions in London, Dublin and Granada, Spain. Alan McGee first confirmed that a new JAMC album was on the way by telling Canada’s CBC Music: “They’ve made another album! It’s a big deal! It’s kinda enormous.”
The album commences with “Amputation,” in which waves of distorted guitar and Jim’s insouciant vocal delivery collide to create a hypnotic track which addresses his feelings of “being edited out of the whole music business… I felt like a rock ‘n’ roll amputation.”
Other highlights include a refined and re-energised new version of “All Things Must Pass” which previously featured in the TV show ‘Heroes’ and then on ‘Upside Down: The Best of The Jesus and Mary Chain’; and the raw garage-rock of “Facing Up To The Facts” which offers the revealing lyric: “I hate my brother and he hates me / That’s the way it’s supposed to be”.
The album also features performances from the band’s touring drummer Brian Young as well as former Lush bassist Phil King.
‘Damage and Joy’ will be released on digital, CD, vinyl and Cassette formats, and pre-orders are currently open. All pre-orders receive an immediate download of “Amputation” and “Always Sad.”
Jesus And Mary Chain
Damage and Joy
(ADA / Warner Music)
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Damage And Joy Track Listing
Amputation
War On Peace
All Things Pass
Always Sad
Songs For A Secret
The Two Of Us
Los Feliz (Blues and Greens)
Mood Rider
Presedici (Et Chapaquiditch)
Get On Home
Facing Up To The Facts
Simian Split
Black And Blues
Can’t Stop The Rock
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