It was just a year and a half ago that my colleague Ron Kretsch was lamenting that there appeared to be “no new music in the offing yet” from Jesus and Mary Chain, this while in the throes of a 30th anniversary tour of Psychocandy.

Well, Ron can guardedly commence a process of rejoicing, as this morning the following tweet appeared in the feed of Creation Records:
 

JAMC will drop their new record March 2017. ...............................on Warners of course!

— Creation Records (@creationrecords) November 16, 2016

 
In an interview with CBC Music yesterday, Creation Records’ co-founder Alan McGee confirmed that the Scottish band will be releasing a new album in March 2017. His exact words were: “New album coming. It’s coming out end of next March. It’s kinda enormous!”

Jesus and Mary Chain put out several albums between its legendary debut album Psychocandy in 1985 and Munki in 1998. In 2003 JAMC released Live In Concert on Strange Fruit, and just last year the band put out Barrowlands Live, a document from November 2014 of the 30th anniversary Psychocandy tour. 

Here’s an amusing interview from Belgian TV followed by a performance of “Never Understand”:

 
via Pitchfork