Under the Radar

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN

“W e just liked those words, ‘damage’ and ‘joy,’” Jim Reid dryly explains in regards to the name of their new record, before pausing to contemplate them. “I think it does describe something: not the album, but the people who made the album.”

The long-awaited is The Jesus and Mary Chain’s first album since 1998’s . The — and have teased fans with talk of a new record since nearly the moment they got back together. It took them almost a decade to finally make it happen.

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