Phil Mongredien 

Primal Scream: More Light – review

Primal Scream's 10th album is an exhilarating return to form, says Phil Mongredien
  
  


Primal Scream's recent output has been blighted by an overreliance on their default setting of "ersatz Stones". Thankfully their 10th album finds them stepping out of their comfort zone again: nine-minute opener 2013 is a bold mix of shrieking sax, Kevin Shields's guitar noise and state-of-the-nation rhetoric. The more restrained moments are equally unpredictable and equally well judged. Of course, Bobby Gillespie's lyrics are still largely embarrassing, thanks to a propensity for insurrectionary non sequiturs that are big on abstract nouns but shakier on sense. But this is still their most exhilarating album since 2000's superlative Xtrmntr.

 

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