Happy When It Rains E.P. by The Jesus and Mary Chain

Happy When It Rains came out on Blanco y Negro on 3 August 1987 as the second single from Darklands, the Jesus and Mary Chain's second album, and the 10-inch version went out billed as an EP. It followed "April Skies" into the shops and got as far as number 25 in Britain.

Jim and William Reid keep the noise-pop tension simmering here, but they let the melody do the heavy lifting: the song is all sulky sweetness, a bubblegum hook dragged through the gloom, with a title that sums up the band's knack for making misery sound like a good time. It's the brothers' pop instincts in full view, the same instincts that made Darklands the band's biggest seller at home.

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