- Record Label: Edsel
- Release Date: Jul 31, 2015
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Aug 4, 2015Live at Barrowlands is a marvelous document of the Jesus and Mary Chain at the height of their influential power thirty years later.
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Aug 17, 2015The band lace all 14 tracks from Psychocandy with attitude, adrenaline and volume: their collective belligerence peaking during Never Understand and the relentless metallic KO of Inside Me.
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Aug 12, 2015Cheap nostalgia and cynicism be damned. They still sound--on this evidence at least--utterly majestic.
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MojoAug 4, 2015Their anarchic spirit is captured over the original LP's 11 tracks. [Sep 2015, p.92]
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Aug 4, 2015This 30th-anniversary performance of the album at Glasgow’s Barrowlands doesn’t convey quite the sense of risk that accompanied their early shows, but the cocktail of noise and melody has largely retained its potency.
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Aug 4, 2015Capped by the sublime You Trip Me Up, even in 2014 Psychocandy was a visceral burn around the very edge of listenability.
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Sep 1, 2015As an accompaniment to the original album--which I'm sure most people reading this will already own (and if you don't, you should)--it stands proud as a comprehensive update to a timeless record.
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Aug 4, 2015The live shows were deafeningly loud and visceral and the atmosphere is impossible to translate to a record, gamely as they might try. The quality of the recording is very disappointing; varying volume and muffled production suggest it was dashed off in too great haste.