Darklands

by The Jesus and Mary Chain

Darklands cover art

Completely abandoning the screeching feedback of their debut, The Jesus and Mary Chain embraced a pristine, atmospheric production style heavily reliant on drum machines. 'Darklands' focuses entirely on William and Jim Reid’s melancholic, pop-oriented songwriting, delivering a nocturnal, bittersweet collection of alternative rock. It established a cleaner, more introspective jangle-pop template that heavily influenced the emerging shoegaze and indie pop scenes.

Genres

  • Alternative Rock

Tracklist

  1. Darklands
  2. Deep One Perfect Morning
  3. Happy When It Rains
  4. Down on Me
  5. Nine Million Rainy Days
  6. April Skies
  7. Fall
  8. Cherry Came Too
  9. On the Wall
  10. About You
  11. Some Candy Talking
  12. Taste of Candy - Acoustic Version
  13. Psychocandy
  14. Hit
  15. Kill Surf City
  16. Bo Diddley Is Jesus
  17. Who Do You Love
  18. Everything's Alright When You're Down
  19. Shake
  20. Happy When It Rains - Demo
  21. Happy Place
  22. F. Hole
  23. Rider
  24. On the Wall - Portastudio Demo
  25. Surfin' USA - April Outtake
  26. Here It Comes Again
  27. Walk and Crawl - Single Version
  28. Some Candy Talking - NME Version
  29. Mushroom
  30. The Hardest Walk - From the Some Kind of Wonderful Soundtrack
  31. Don't Ever Change
  32. Swing
  33. Darklands - With Strings