One of the most influential bands ever to come out of the UK, The Jesus & Mary Chain, recently announced they are set to release their first album of new material in almost two decades next year. Today, they’ve dropped their first piece of new music in a decade, a new single entitled ‘Amputation’.
Fans of the band will likely be struck by how similar in style and sound ‘Amputation’ is to the band’s early and mid-’90s, post-Psychocandy output. The song could pass for a cut off the band’s warmly received 1992 album, Honey’s Dead, with its walls of guitar noise paired with a mechanical-sounding drum loop.
As Consequence of Sound recently reported, Creation Records, the iconic UK label that signed the band in 1984 and put out their first single, confirmed the news of a new LP 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, who have not released an album since 1998’s Munki, have dubbed their first album in some 18 years Damage And Joy. You can check out ‘Amputation’ below.
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.
