JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - Sunset 666 2LP

Limited edition of 2000 copies.

Double 180 gram vinyl housed in gatefold sleeve. Printed inners with liner notes.

Highly recommended.

"The Mary Chain are a very Hollywood kinda band aren’t they? Certainly for East Kilbride. Here at the source of so much that fed them, ten minutes from Capitol records, squirming in the California sun. Iconoclasts devoted to the history of rock ‘n’ roll. In some ways actually about it, cut ‘n’ pasting its multiple pasts into their own overheated aesthetic, juggling clichés and borrowed poses. The groovy hate garage band with the golden heartbreak ballad and the ‘Be My Baby’ beat. They’re from a time when rock was still quite fast moving, but nostalgic for a time it was revelatory. Sullen about cheering on its death. Always a band apart, they’ve come adrift in the twenty first century, analogue thrills in a digital hellscape, a band out of time. It’s just as well they’re good songs ‘cos all that other stuff that held them up has fallen away.

This set comes to us almost by accident. A bootleg of quality and good provenance. From a 2018 run of support shows with Nine Inch Nails at the Hollywood Palladium. There was no plan to record but their sound engineer just noticed he could plug his laptop into the desk and let it go. The first three sides are one complete set with the last adding other material from an earlier night. The results are strong. Keeping things raw and honest, there has been only minimal editing to cut out William tuning his guitar. As the crowd weren’t mic’d up their response sounds subdued or distant but despite the pauses between songs the set has a steady momentum." - Echoes And Dust