Scottish post-punk duo The Jesus and Mary Chain are set to return with a new album in 2024. “Glasgow Eyes” will arrive March 8th 2024 and coincide with the band’s 40th anniversary, along with an autobiography to be published by Orion/White Rabbit.
“Glasgow Eyes” will be Jim and William Reid’s eighth album together as the Jesus and Mary Chain, and a follow-up to their 2017 LP “Damage and Joy”. The latter was a project inspired by Suicide, Kraftwerk and the improvisational disciplines of jazz, but “Glasgow Eyes” is a look back to take the duo back to 1984.
“…don’t expect ‘the Mary Chain goes jazz.’ People should expect a Jesus and Mary Chain record, and that’s certainly what “Glasgow Eyes” is,” Jim says of the new project. “Our creative approach is remarkably the same as it was in 1984, just hit the studio and see what happens. We went in with a bunch of songs and let it take its course. There are no rules, you just do whatever it takes. And there’s a telepathy there—we are those weird not-quite twins that finish each other’s sentences.”
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When you listen to Damage and Joy now it feels like one of the classic albums. Their sound doesn’t date. Hope Glasgow Eyes keeps up