Third Man Records has announced the 65th installment in their long-running quarterly vinyl subscription service The Vault, which will be The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy 40th Anniversary Edition.

Included in this set is a 2xLP version of Psychocandy cut at 45rpm, a live recording from St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit from 1987, and a metallic gold 7” featuring “Jesus Fuck” b/w an early (and previously unreleased) demo of “Just Like Honey.” Sign up is open now through July 31 at midnight CST.

With equal influence gleaned from The Stooges and The Shangri-Las, The Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys, the band released the album, Psychocandy, in 1985.

Anchoring this set is a 2xLP version of Psychocandy cut at 45rpm. It was cut by Warren Defever at Third Man Mastering using super high definition 192khz transfers of the original 1985 mix and featuring the classic JAMC line-up of Jim Reid, William Reid, Douglas Hart and Bobby Gillespie.

Additionally, unearthed specifically for the anniversary is a live recording from St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit from 1987. With songs from Psychocandy and its equally as follow-up Darklands, two takes here (“Taste of Cindy” and “April Skies”) appeared as non-album B-sides in 1988, but the rest of the songs on this 2xLP swath are all previously unheard. They were mixed back in the day by William Reid and Brian Young, from multitrack soundboard recordings. 

The original album is packaged in a two pocket, gatefold jacket housed in a slipcase and pressed on 180-gram psychocandy colored vinyl with the live discs on darkest black 180-gram vinyl and living in a classic double-wide spine single-pocket jacket.

Also, the song “Jesus Fuck” with the previously unreleased demo of “Just Like Honey” are pressed on metallic gold vinyl 7-inch.