The Scottish band’s genre-hopping new album is at its best on songs with slinky grooves and lush arrangements that sound as ...
The first Primal Scream album in eight years gives Bobby Gillespie’s acid-dipped grooves a funky, cinematic sheen.
In many ways, Primal Scream have had a strikingly similar career path to the Rolling Stones – despite them forming some 20 ...
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Producer David Holmes provides a backdrop of soulful grooves on Bobby Gillespie and co.’s best album in years.
Here’s a simple truth to help you decide whether this one’s for you: this will not be your favourite Primal Scream album, but ...
Their first album in eight years is a masterpiece of personal songwriting, rage for the exploited and funk... yes, funk!
At 63, Bobby Gillespie can still channel the back-alley menace of a truant teen while embracing full-blown hedonism in his ...
Come Ahead, Gillespie writes in the album notes, is a Glaswegian term for accepting a fight. There is little sign here of boldness, let alone the singer’s previously embraced belligerence. Movin’ on ...
Inconsistency isn’t necessarily a drawback for rock bands. Not keeping their word, doing what they want, taking big swings and missing: this is what they’re meant to do. When Oasis — who know a thing ...
Where early Primal Scream channelled the psychedelic sixties ... It’s also combative, a gauntlet thrown down to naysayers and ...