found: Work cat.: Jesus & Mary Chain (Musical group). Psychocandy, 2006(noise pop album originally released in 1985)
found: AllMusic website, Dec. 9, 2019:Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain (Genre: Pop/Rock. Styles: Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock, Noise Pop)
found: AllMusic website, Dec. 9, 2019:Pop/Rock > Alternative/Indie Rock > Noise Pop (A subgenre of alternative/indie rock, noise pop is just what it says -- pop music wrapped in barbed-wire kisses of feedback, dissonance, and abrasion. It occupies the halfway point between bubblegum and the avant-garde, a collision between conventional pop songcraft and the sonic assault of white noise. Noise pop often has a hazy, narcotic feel, as melodies drift through the swirling guitar textures. But it can also be bright and lively, or angular and challenging. The first proper noise pop band was the Jesus & Mary Chain, whose groundbreaking 1986 debut Psychocandy pretty much birthed the style. Yo La Tengo, perhaps the most prolific and long-lived noise-pop band, debuted around the same time. In the late '80s, noise pop was the chief inspiration for the British shoegazing movement, which made the lyrics more introspective and the melodies more fragile. All through the '90s, noise pop continued to enjoy an important and influential presence on the indie rock scene)
found: rateyourmusic.com website, Dec. 9, 2019:Genres > Rock > Alternative rock > Noise pop (Noise pop is a style of Alternative Rock that arose in the mid-1980s as some British Jangle Pop, Twee Pop, and Post-Punk groups started to use more distortion. An early landmark album for the genre was The Jesus and Mary Chain's 1985 album Psychocandy, defining the style's blend of poppier Rock songwriting and melodies with the crisp, noisy timbres of overdriven guitars and occasional use of guitar feedback. Noise pop's combination of sunny, simple, often Girl Group-esque melodies (hence the 'pop') with waves of distortion sets it apart from the rawer, less melodic, often haphazard sounds of Noise Rock. The vocals in noise pop also tend to be hazier, dreamier and altogether more melodic and harmonic than in noise rock. The sound would be one influence on the rise of Shoegaze a few years later)
found: Noise pop music, via last.fm website, Dec. 9, 2019(Noise pop music; Noise pop; a strain of alternative rock that fuses punk rock's attitude and anger with the atonal noise, feedback, and free song structures of noise music, presented in a decidedly pop context. Typically it employs standard rock instrumentations such as electric guitar, bass guitar, drum kit, and occasionally keyboards, and uses a number of effects usually not present in more mainstream forms of music such as fuzz, feedback, and drones. Song structures generally follow a standard pop/rock formula. Most noise pop bands feature sung, melodic vocals, and harmonies are not altogether uncommon in the genre; Early noise pop bands include Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., and Yo La Tengo. The Jesus and Mary Chain is the band most widely cited as being the first noise pop band. Noise pop was the chief inspiration for the British shoegaze movement)
found: Grove music online, Dec. 9, 2019(under Minneapolis and St Paul: Husker Du, a Minneapolis power trio, merged punk and pop into a post-punk noise pop that also laid the groundwork for much of the alternative rock of the 1990s)
found: Kurland, J. Snap, crackle and noise pop, via SFGate website, posted Feb. 26, 1997, viewed Dec. 9, 2019(Although there is not one defining trait of a Noise Pop performer, most acts do share thematic similarities: crashing guitars, delectable dissonance, insatiable melodies. Whereas feedback and distortion can be rather disconcerting when they fall into the wrong hands, the typical Noise Pop artist has learned how to twist them into a subtle blend of melodic mayhem; roots of the Noise Pop genre can be traced to bands such as Husker Du, the Replacements, Dinosaur Jr. and the Flaming Lips)
notfound: The Oxford dictionary of music, 2012
