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The Jesus and Mary Chain: Glasgow Eyes review – the Reid brothers get their mojo back
Forget the odd longueur – their first album in seven years rekindles the Scottish indie band’s gift for mixing melody and dissonance
Given the weakness of so much of the brothers Reid ’s post-1992 output, last autumn’s comeback single, Jamcod, was an unexpected triumph – the sound of a band rediscovering the combination of melody and dissonance that made their 1980s records so thrilling. The Eagles and the Beatles is a knowing love letter to classic rock set to I Love Rock’n’Roll’s riff; the Suicide-adjacent Venal Joy reprises the mechanised throb of 1989’s Automatic; the more restrained smoulders winningly, while Second of June recalls the prettiness that always lay beneath Psychocandy ’s layers of feedback. There are inevitable longueurs as well, mind: Pure Poor gives dirges a bad name, and closer Hey Lou Reid fancies itself as an epic but instead just feels like an extraordinarily slow six minutes.
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