esus And Mary Chain - Munki (Exclusive Red / Blue Vinyl)

Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of The Jesus and Mary Chain's sixth studio album Munki with this exclusive red / blue vinyl edition remastered by Pete Maher. Originally released in 1998 on Sub Pop/Creation Records the album was, until the bands' reformation in 2007, an experimental masterclass turned swan song for the Reid brothers, whose fractious in-fighting culminated in the band’s break-up less than a year after its release.

 

It's perhaps fitting, then, that Munki is argued by some as the definitive Mary Chain record in the way it seemed to chart the full array of musical directions the band had ploughed over the five records that came before. The decision to bookend the album with Jim’s rousing sing-along "I Love Rock 'N' Roll" and William’s caustic white-noise anthem "I Hate Rock 'N' Roll" perfectly captures the two-fold tension present at the heart of the Mary Chain at the time – a tension between noise and melody and warring brothers.

Featured guests include Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval on her second duet with the group on the swaggering, bittersweet "Perfume" and the Reid’s younger sister Linda (Sister Vanilla) sings beautifully on top of the scrappy proto-punk of "Moe Tucker".

Exclusive RED / BLUE double vinyl produced by Fuzz Club in 2023.

TRACKLISTING:

1. I Love Rock 'N' Roll

2. Birthday

3. Stardust Remedy

4. Fizzy

5. Moe Tucker

6. Perfume

7. Virtually Unreal

8. Degenerate

9. Cracking Up

10. Commercial

11. Supertramp

12. Never Understood

13. I Can't find The Time For Times

14. Man On The Moon

15. Black

16. Dream Lover

17. I Hate Rock 'N' Roll