One of the most influential bands ever to come out of the UK, The Jesus & Mary Chain are set to release their first album of new material in almost two decades next year.
As Consequence of Sound reports, Creation Records, the iconic UK label that signed the band in 1984 and put out their first single, confirmed the news in a Facebook post.
“The Jesus And Mary Chain will be dropping their new record March 2017.. on Warners… of course!!!” the label wrote. The band have not released an album since 1998’s Munki.
Speaking to the CBC recently, via CoS, Alan McGee, the band’s manager and the founder of Creation Records, said, “It’s a big deal! It’s unbelievable. They’ve just made an album and I’ve signed them to Warners!”
With the release of 1985’s Psychocandy, The Jesus & Mary Chain were immediately thrust to the forefront of the UK’s post-punk scene, with their mix of acrid, noisy meshes of guitar and ethereal, wall-of-sound atmospherics.
