Reviews
5 stars out of 5 -- "A brash statement that guitars should be louder than vocals and that texture of sound was as important as the tunes embedded within.", Included in Ap's "10 Essential '80s Albums"., Ranked #10 in AP's list of the 'Top 99 Of '85-'95' - "...JAMC's debut LP radically updated the Velvets, Beach Boys and Ramones, dousing honeyed melodies with scouring blankets of feedback....Fantastic tunes under tons of feedback...", Ranked #6 in NME's list of The 50 Greatest Albums Of The '80s - "...PSYCHOCANDY drenches the sweetest pop tunes in the most hideous racket...", "With sticky-sweet, hang-ten Beach Boys hooks...and a dense pudding of Velvets-via-Joy Division feedback and distortion on top...", Ranked #45 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...These diffidently tuneful jokers declared noise, timbre, and texture the new coins of the realm...", Ranked #27 in Nme's List of the 'greatest Albums of All Time.', Ranked #88 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...Mixes the Velvets, Iggy Pop, The Ramones, and Phil Spector to produce a morbid drill of a record....A fan letter to the darkest US rock...it is a bridge between 2 great British inventions, goth and punk...", "...haunting and unique songs...whose radiance is buried under an impenetrable blanket of piercing white noise...", 5 stars out of 5 -- "The album still feels seismic....The Mary Chain brought and extremity of intent and emotion that was unprecedented.", 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Both catchy and terrifying, sounding like the Beach Boys had let out their inner Charles Manson.", 5 stars out of 5 -- "Twenty-one years later, PSYCHOCANDY still has grime under its nails, an irresistible feedback urchin raised by rock'n'roll wolves.", "With bubblegum hooks...blasts of guitar noise...and buried mumbling singing...this is the root integer of shoegaze.", Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time".
