For Immediate Release:

July 1, 2025

THIRD MAN RECORDS

ANNOUNCES VAULT PACKAGE #65:

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN - PSYCHOCANDY

40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

BOX SET INCLUDES 2xLP 45 RPM VERSION OF PSYCHOCANDY,

A DETROIT LIVE RECORDING FROM 1987,

AND A METALLIC GOLD 7” FEATURING

“JESUS FUCK” B/W EARLY “JUST LIKE HONEY” DEMO

SUBSCRIBE BY JULY 31, 2025 AT MIDNIGHT CDT TO RECEIVE THIS PACKAGE

Third Man Records is proud to announce the 65th installment in their long-running quarterly vinyl subscription service The Vault, The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy 40th Anniversary Edition. Included in this set is a 2xLP version of Psychocandy cut at 45rpm, a live recording from St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit from 1987, and a metallic gold 7” featuring “Jesus Fuck" b/w an early (and previously unreleased) demo of “Just Like Honey.” Sign up is open now through July 31 at midnight CST.

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1985: As the last detached murmurs of post-punk slowly crest into the earliest whispers of shoegaze, standing there in a world all their own, cutting a profile both unique and incomparable is The Jesus and Mary Chain. With equal influence gleaned from The Stooges and The Shangri-Las, The Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys, the band releases the unassailable godhead album, Psychocandy.

In celebration of this recording, one of the most important and watershed albums of all time, Third Man Records is humbled to announce Psychocandy: 40th Anniversary Edition as the 65th release of their Vault quarterly subscription series.

Anchoring this set is a 2xLP version of Psychocandy cut at 45rpm. It is not hyperbole to say this might be the loudest cut…not only of this record, but of any record…you will ever hear. The high speed treatment here affords the sonics a heretofore unseen clarity in the band’s utilization of controlled feedback. And such dynamic range! A record better-suited for this treatment you will struggle to find. Crank it loud and it just does not break up. Distortion has never sounded so clear. Cut by Warren Defever at Third Man Mastering using super high definition 192khz transfers of the original 1985 mix and featuring the classic JAMC line-up of Jim Reid, William Reid, Douglas Hart and Bobby Gillespie.

Additionally, unearthed specifically for the anniversary is a crystalline live recording from St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit from 1987. Perfectly balanced with songs from Psychocandy and its equally as beautiful follow-up Darklands, two takes here (“Taste of Cindy” and “April Skies”) appeared as non-album b-sides in 1988, but the rest of the songs on this 2xLP swath are all previously unheard and absolutely mind-blowing in all the best of ways. Mixed back in the day by William Reid and Brian Young, from multitrack soundboard recordings. 

The original album is packaged in a sumptuous two pocket, gatefold jacket housed in a slipcase and pressed on 180-gram psychocandy colored vinyl with the live discs on darkest black 180-gram vinyl and living in a classic double-wide spine single-pocket jacket.

And the metaphorical cherry on top, the pairing of the the absolutely savage improvisational fan favorite “Jesus Fuck” with the wildly early (and previously unreleased) demo of “Just Like Honey.” These two songs, better than any, highlight the brilliant musical chiaroscuro of the Jesus and Mary Chain, the perfect tenuous blend of light and dark, unparalleled hypnotic pop melody and bombastic overdriven feedback noise. Pressed on metallic gold vinyl, this 7-inch quintessentially captures the contrasting beauty of what makes this band so groundbreaking.

Sign up now through midnight central time July 31st only at www.thirdmanrecords.com/vault.

The Jesus And Mary Chain

Psychocandy: 40th Anniversary Edition

(4xLP / 1 x 7-inch)

SIDE ONE - PSYCHOCANDY

Just Like Honey

The Living End

Taste The Floor 

SIDE TWO - PSYCHOCANDY

The Hardest Walk

Cut Dead

In A Hole

Taste Of Cindy

SIDE THREE - PSYCHOCANDY

Never Understand

Inside Me

Sowing Seeds

My Little Underground

SIDE FOUR - PSYCHOCANDY

You Trip Me Up

Something’s Wrong

It’s So Hard

JIM REID: VOCALS, GUITAR

WILLIAM REID: GUITAR, VOCALS

DOUGLAS HART: BASS

BOBBY GILLESPIE: DRUMS

SIDE FIVE - Live in Detroit November 20th, 1987

In A Hole (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

Fall (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

Happy When It Rains (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

Cherry Came Too (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

SIDE SIX - Live in Detroit November 20th, 1987

Just Like Honey (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

The Hardest Walk (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

April Skies (live)

The Living End (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

Taste Of Cindy (live)

SIDE SEVEN - Live in Detroit November 20th, 1987

Nine Million Rainy Days (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

Down On Me (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

You Trip Me Up (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

SIDE EIGHT - Live in Detroit November 20th, 1987

Kill Surf City (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

Who Do You Love (live) - PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

JIM REID: VOCALS, GUITAR

WILLIAM REID: GUITAR, VOCALS

DOUGLAS HART: BASS

DAVE EVANS: GUITAR

BONUS 7-INCH

SIDE 1

Jesus Fuck (LIVE @ MELKWEG, AMSTERDAM March 9th, 1985) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

JIM REID: VOCALS, GUITAR

WILLIAM REID: GUITAR, VOCALS

DOUGLAS HART: BASS

BOBBY GILLESPIE: DRUMS

SIDE 2

Just Like Honey (EARLY DEMO) PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

JIM REID: VOCALS, GUITAR

WILLIAM REID: GUITAR, VOCALS

KAREN PARKER: VOCALS

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