Unaddressed allegations of racism, misogyny, violent abuse and bad behaviour. You break up with your ex. The Jesus and Mary Chain is a Scottish alternative rock band formed in β¦. And to think, it all started with an advert. Once I was blind, now I can see Once I was blind but nowβ¦.
This feels like home. The opening song sounds like My Bloody Valentine. You may well be enthused byβ¦. Good news: Hinds are back!!! Remember Cults?
Kiss Land oozes with a diseased, rancid sexuality from beginning to end. Filled with songs of blame and numb regret, it pursues the limits of pleasure, the allure of unending options, the bleakness of inevitable death. What makes the album compelling is its willingness to pursue its premise, its philosophy, all the way to the end, no matter how ugly it gets.
And love only exists in the imagination β that is to say, some place else. Someone smarter than me once wrote that a male falsetto signifies, before anything else, vulnerability. Check out the title track, especially the seasick synths in the second half. How great is that? Kiss Land takes hedonism as its starting point. It begins with every last impulse fulfilled, and the lack of fulfillment it brings.
Drake shows up at some point. Being a liar means you can never trust anyone. Being unfaithful means every relationship ends in tears or worse. Being in love with stuff means never having enough. Needing to be in control means you will always feel powerless.
