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Darklands
Rock · 1987 · 33 tracks

Darklands

The Jesus and Mary Chain

A pivot from noise to melody. Reverb-soaked guitars and mechanical drum beats create a rain-slicked, melancholic masterpiece of 80s alternative rock.

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It's the ultimate 'staring out a rainy window in a leather jacket' record.

A rain-slicked, nocturnal meditation on loneliness and cool detachment.

Darklands · vs · The Jesus and Mary Chain
Low Energy-1.8σ

It runs notably cooler and more held-back than this artist's baseline.

Tracklist · 33 Tracks
01
Darklands
5:30
02
Deep One Perfect Morning
2:44
03
Happy When It Rains
3:37
04
Down on Me
2:37
05
Nine Million Rainy Days
4:31
06
April Skies
4:00
07
Fall
2:31
08
Cherry Came Too
3:06
09
On the Wall
5:05
10
About You
2:35
11
Some Candy Talking
3:18
12
Taste of Cindy (acoustic)
2:01
13
Psychocandy
2:54
14
Hit
3:29
15
Kill Surf City
3:12
16
Bo Diddley Is Jesus
3:17
17
Who Do You Love
4:05
18
Everything’s Alright When You’re Down
2:39
19
Shake
2:01
20
Happy When It Rains (demo)
3:46
21
Happy Place
2:24
22
F.Hole
1:07
23
Rider
1:07
24
On the Wall (Portastudio demo)
3:42
25
Surfin’ USA (April outtake)
2:58
26
Here It Comes Again (outtake)
2:32
27
Walk and Crawl
2:24
28
Some Candy Talking (NME version)
3:10
29
Mushroom
3:19
30
The Hardest Walk (soundtrack version)
3:12
31
Don’t Ever Change
3:33
32
Swing
2:26
33
Darklands (with strings)
5:27
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition from the title track's slow gloom into the driving, mechanical pop hooks of April Skies.
The way the drum machine on Nine Million Rainy Days mimics a heartbeat beneath a thick layer of mournful guitar.
The sudden clarity of the acoustic guitar on the stripped-back version of Taste of Cindy.
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