The Jesus & Mary Chain confirm new album Damage and Joy


The Jesus & Mary Chain live in London, March 2016 (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)

The Jesus & Mary Chain live in London, March 2016 (Photo: Alberto Pezzali for Live4ever Media)




The Jesus & Mary Chain have confirmed their new album is entitled Damage and Joy and will be released on March 24th next year.

“We started to – can you believe? – listen to each other a bit more,” Jim Reid says of their first record since Munki of 1998. “In the last couple of years, we’ve buried the hatchet to some degree, and thankfully not into each other. Most people who know us would say that we haven’t mellowed that much. I think it was to do with the fact, dare I say it, that wisdom comes with age. Let’s live and let live, and let’s take each other’s opinions into account.”

“The interesting thing about this record is what comes out of the speakers. To make a good record is an achievement if you’re twenty-two, but to do it in your fifties, the way we are, I think is a minor miracle.”

The news cements a successful reunion for the band after their live return in honour of the classic Psychocandy.

Damage and Joy tracklist:

Amputation
War On Peace
All Things Pass
Always Sad
Songs For A Secret
The Two Of Us
Los Feliz (Blues and Greens)
Mood Rider
Presedici (Et Chapaquiditch)
Get On Home
Facing Up To The Facts
Simian Split
Black And Blues
Can’t Stop The Rock


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