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Lead Performance: The Jesus and Mary Chain; Genre: Rock

By Will Hermes

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN Munki (Sub Pop) Amazing: After a four-year exile, Jim and William Reid still have the gall to pen ''school-fool-cool'' rhymes, filch classic melodies (Buddy Holly's ''It's So Easy''), wallow in guitar noise, and fret over their ''darkened souls.'' Thank God. They almost discover trip-hop on ''Perfume,'' a keyboard-spiked seance with Hope Sandoval. Otherwise it's rock minimalism as usual -- less glacial, maybe, but still able to sink ships. B+

Posted Jun 12, 1998

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