At a glance
- Artist
- The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Released
- 18 November 1985
- Label
- Blanco y Negro Records
- Catalogue number
- BYN 7
- Format
- 12″ Vinyl
- Country
- UK
- Tracks
- 14, 39:07
In the issue
Shoegaze and Dreampop
Start here · 1982-1997
It fused pop melody with feedback and distortion, pushing My Bloody Valentine to change direction entirely.
Psychocandy is shoegaze's immediate ancestor, marrying pop melody to sheets of feedback and distortion. Released in 1985 on Creation Records, it fused Phil Spector's Wall of Sound with the roar of a Marshall stack, and Alan McGee later credited it with pushing My Bloody Valentine to change direction entirely. Every band that followed with a guitar and a fuzz pedal owes it something.
Track list
- A1Just Like Honey3:03
- A2The Living End2:17
- A3Taste the Floor2:57
- A4The Hardest Walk2:41
- A5Cut Dead2:48
- A6In a Hole3:02
- A7Taste of Cindy1:41
- B1Never Understand2:58
- B2Inside Me3:10
- B3Sowing Seeds2:51
- B4My Little Underground2:31
- B5You Trip Me Up2:27
- B6Something’s Wrong4:03
- B7It’s So Hard2:36
Terms
- Wall of Sound
- A dense, layered recording production technique developed by producer Phil Spector, using multiple instruments doubling the same parts to create a thick, reverberant, orchestral sound.