Tracklist:

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

To celebrate the albums 25-year anniversary, The Jesus And Mary Chain are reissuing their long-sold-out sixth studio album Munki. Out October 6th 2023 on Fuzz Club, the reissue arrives on CD and gatefold double LP. The vinyl has been remastered by Pete Maher (The Rolling Stones, Jack White, Liam Gallagher). Originally released June 2nd 1998 on Sub Pop / Creation Records, Munki was up until the Mary Chains reformation in 2007 an experimental rocknroll masterclass turned swan song for the Reid brothers, whose fractious in-fighting culminated in the bands break-up less than a year after its release. It was 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 Jims rousing sing-along I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll and Williams caustic white-noise anthem I Hate Rock ‘N’ Roll perfectly captures the two-fold tension at the heart of the Mary Chain at that time a tension between noise and melody, and warring brothers. Across the albums 17 tracks and 70-minute running time, there are the expected abrasive noise-rock epics Cracking Up and Degenerate by way of fuzzed-out pop hits like Fizzy and the tender acoustic slow-burner Never Understood. Between the Reids Glaswegian snarls and unapologetically insolent lyrics “I’m a mean motherf*cker now, but I once was cool, McDonalds is sh*t!, Children are fools! being just a few lyrical highlights Munki also features two great guest appearances. Mazzy Stars Hope Sandoval returns for another Mary Chain duet on Perfume, which has a swagger thats equal parts menacing and bittersweet, and the Reids younger sister Linda (Sister Vanilla) sings beautifully on top of Moe Tuckers motorik proto-punk scuzz.