William and Jim Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain are undeniable figures in the evolution of indie-rock.

While the Glasgow-born brothers vehemently reject any musical labels, their potent combination of 60s-era, bubblegum melodies and big-noise feedback not only produced an acclaimed and highly-influential debut with 1985’s Psychocandy, but helped bring terms like “shoegaze” and “noise pop” into the modern rock lexicon.

In a 40-year career divided by two distinct halves — before and after a messy, public breakup in 1998 — the siblings have spent most of the last decade reunited by the thing that inspired them in the first place: their undying love of music. Their latest tour arrives in San Diego on Nov. 8 in a double-bill concert with the Psychedelic Furs at the Rady Shell.

Brothers William Reid, left, and Jim Reid, who head up the Scottish band the Jesus and Mary Chain. (Steve Gullick)

Coachella’s big payday in 2007 gets some of the credit for bringing the Reid brothers back to the same stage after nine years apart, but it wasn’t immediately business as usual. The band didn’t start touring regularly again until 2012, and it was 2017, in the form of their seventh album, Damage and Joy, that new music was finally released.

However, with half of the songs on that album previously appearing as different versions, the 12 tracks on this year’s Glasgow Eyes now stand as the brothers’ purest return to form — even if it was born of unfortunate circumstances. Well into its creation, a studio engineer inexplicably lost the original recordings from Glasgow Eyes and the band was forced to return to square one.

“It was just a disastrous way to start out the album,” said guitarist, songwriter and elder Reid, William, from a recent tour stop in Toronto. “But it wasn’t the whole album. It was maybe seven or eight songs. But it was still like a dagger to the heart to lose them.”

And while the long-reconciled brothers are once again reinvested in making music together, the way in which they write and record it remains starkly different.

“Jim went straight into the studio as soon as he could when it happened,” said Reid. “So he could remember what he was doing. It wasn’t that bad for him. But it changed the process for me. It was so just disheartening to start recording again. We had to rethink the album a little bit. But it worked out fine.”

Some might say better than fine.

Glasgow Eyes hit the top spot on album charts in the U.K., Scotland, and Spain, while making the top 10 in the U.S. and a handful of other countries. It was the first album by the Jesus and Mary Chain album to do that in 36 years.

Building on that momentum, the band released its first-ever autobiography, Never Understood, in September. With help from music critic and radio host Ben Thompson, the book consists of the Reid brothers trading firsthand accounts ranging from their meager beginnings in Glasgow tenements to the alcohol- and drug-fueled infighting that ultimately caused their very public, onstage breakup.

Siblings Jim Reid, left, and William Reid head up the Scottish rock band the Jesus and Mary Chain. (Mel Butler)

Even with the sometimes contradicting recollections of the same events or time periods, Never Understood provides a tremendous amount of previously unknown insight into the band and its wealth of unique family dynamics.

But for a pair of musicians many times portrayed in the media as aloof, antagonistic and fiercely protective of their privacy, baring it all in 300-plus pages wasn’t exactly something that came easily.

“They had to drag me kicking and screaming to do it,” William said. “I thought it was very uncomfortable to sit and talk about your life. For me, it was an experiment. Everyone told me I could back out if I wanted to, but halfway through I realized everyone was lying. But people seem to like the book and that’s all I was really worried about. And I hope people get to know us a little bit after reading it.”

It’s impossible to imagine those who spend time with Never Understood not coming away with a better understanding of the band and the siblings who founded it. Most of its pages are filled with deeply personal anecdotes that paint a far more complete picture of the group and their ethos.

Yet with things going arguably as well as it ever has for the Jesus and Mary Chain, the band has no plans to slow down or get complacent. And despite hitting their 40th anniversary this year, there will be no time given to talk of the bands legacy.

‘We just don’t think about things like that,” said the elder Reid. “Not at all. What I think about is the next record. The day we finish a record, I’m already thinking about the next one.”

With studio time planned for the first half of next year and a handful of songs already half-written, it’s very likely that the “next one” will be on its way soon.

But if a snippet from William’s final quote in Never Understood holds true — “I don’t think it’s a happy ending until we can make new records that fully reestablish us” — the Jesus and Mary Chain might be working on their legacy after all.

The Psychedelic Furs & the Jesus and Mary Chain

When: 6 p.m. Nov. 8

Where: Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 220 Marina Park Way, downtown

Tickets: $68.40-$112.30

Online: ticketmaster.com