The Jesus & Mary Chain share single ‘jamcod’ and tell us about new album ‘Glasgow Eyes’

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The Jesus & Mary Chain have announced new album ‘Glasgow Eyes’ and shared new single ‘jamcod’. Check out the video first on NME below, along with details of their 2024 UK and European tour and our interview with Jim Reid.Marking 40 years since the release of their debut single ‘Upside Down’, 2024 will see the hugely influential band – whose debut album ‘Psychocandy’ is considered a pivotal work in the development of alt-rock, noise pop and shoegaze – release their eighth studio album, an autobiography and a documentary, and also begin a world tour.The 12-track new album was recorded at Mogwai’s Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow, and finds the band working with electronics and textures that seem to play on the band’s place in a lineage taking in The Velvet Underground and Suicide.

However, Reid told NME that this wasn’t an intentional move.“You go into the studio and you just feel your way around,” he said. “I guess what you’ve been listening to most lately has some sort of impact on the production values – writing, it’s always the same old deal really.

I suppose that we were thinking it would be quite good to muck around with some synths and maybe just tweak the sound a bit.”The album comes previewed by launch single ‘jamcod’, which Reid said came from “remembering painful past issues”.“It was about the break-up of the band,” he explained. “It was actually about the night in the House of Blues when the band broke up [in 1999].

There’s another song, ‘Chemical Animal’, which is similar but different in as much as I was thinking back to the drug days and what it was like.“When you get that deep into that whole shit, it’s like everything’s acting on instinct and you become like an animal and it’s all about drugs.