More Light
On Primal Scream’s most impassioned, lustrous, and expansive album since XTRMNTR, they’re not so much interested in toppling oppressive institutions as devising the psychic survival strategies required to withstand them.
Sometimes it’s frustrating to be a fan of Primal Scream, mainly because there’s no telling what version of the band is going to show up on a given album. When the Scottish band sticks to electronica (1991’s drug-fueled opus Screamadelica, 1997’s despondent masterpiece Vanishing Point), nihilistic synth-punk (2000’s XTR…
On their long-awaited tenth album, the compellingly inconsistent Primal Scream sound genuinely determined to prove themselves but whether they pull it off or not is another question.
Every decent band evolves, morphs, changes and shifts their sound as years go by.
Primal Scream always refracted the past through the prism of the present, turning hero worship into something resembling high art.
Primal Scream are no strangers to robust political debate. This is a band that once planned to release a song entitled Bomb the Pentagon, and felt comfortable discussing the military-industrial complex. Earlier in the century, the Scream had hit an undeniable creative peak. Their music was industrial in scale, savage in sound and unashamedly critical of UK-US foreign policy right at a time when few, if any, artists had much to say about anything other than themselves.
Few contemporary bands can challenge Primal Scream for their ability to revolutionize music, knocking out two era-defining classic albums and, well, consuming enough drugs to kill a small nation.
Primal Scream albums are—to quote Forrest Gump—like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.
Review Of Primal Scream's "More Light" by Northern Transmissions. "More Light" will be released by Ignition Reconds. first single is It's Allright, It's Ok
There's a genuine masterpiece on this album, which begins and ends strongly but dips in the middle, writes <strong>Michael Hann</strong>
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