Jesus & Mary Chain, The - Glasgow Eyes

On 2xLP Frosted Clear Vinyl By all rights, the Jesus and Mary Chain probably shouldn't be making albums in 2024 considering it marked their 40th very turbulent year making music. After all the drugs, the fights, albums that never reached the staggering heights of their best work, changing trends, and hits-filled concerts, even the band's biggest backer had to be doubtful that they would ever make a record that had the power, vitriol, and energy of their best work. Amazingly, painfully, Glasgow Eyes is both a stunning reclamation of the soul of JAMC and a painful trip to the bottom of the barrel, possibly the deepest trip there the band have ever taken. Luckily, it leans a touch more strongly towards the former, with many of the tracks digging deep into the group's ugly past of disagreements, fights, drug abuse, and desolation to pluck out songs that are as bleakly honest, darkly painted, and gnarly as anything they've done. To take two, "Venal Joy," which sports a brilliant vocal cameo