Tuesday, June 5, 2007

The Jesus & Mary Chain: "Psychocandy" ('85)

Incredible, early shoegaze album, on par with The Cure's "Disintegration". Darkly beautiful, but avoids being pointlessly depressing, a common pitfall of goth bands

Note: I recently discovered that the term "Shoegaze", a sub-genre that commonly involves dark styles, but with noisier, shaky guitar-work (and avoiding the lyrical-fallacy that's common in goth music), came from the tendency of the early artists breaking away from the "goth" sound to look down at their shoes while playing. Many of these artists played songs that switched back and forth between what is considered "Goth" and "Shoegaze" styles, so the differences in early shoegaze and goth music at the time were minimal.
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Video: "Just like Honey"

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