Primal Scream
- Beautiful Future (2008)
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Primal
Scream
Tracks
1. Beautiful
Future
2. Can't Go Back
3. Uptown
4. The Glory of Love
5. Suicide Bomb
6. Zombie Man
7. Beautiful Summer
8. I Love to Hurt (You Love to Be Hurt)
9. Over & Over
10. Necro Hex Blues
11. The Glory Of Love
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Scream have returned with their 9th studio album,
"Beautiful Future".
It is a solid follow-up album after 2006’s "Riot City Blues", which
received a mixed response from fans and critics. However, "Beautiful
Future" is loaded with gems that stack up next to the Scream’s
impressive back catalogue.
Primal
Scream are a Scottish alternative group which formed in
Glasgow in 1982 when Bobby Gillespie met Jim Beattie. Over the years
the band has had many line-up changes, but probably the most notable
addition was that of bass player Gary "Mani" Mounfield of Stone Roses fame in
1996.
On "Beautiful Future" Mani is at his bopping bass line best, and the
songs benefit from his energy and creativity in all things “bottom
end”.
Other musicians of note on the album include special guest appearances
from Lovefoxxx
of Cansei
de Ser Sexy on I Love to Hurt (You Love to Be
Hurt), Josh Homme of Queens
of the Stone Age fame on Necro Hex Blues,
and folk legend Linda
Thompson on a great cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Over & Over.
As a whole, the album has more of a Krautrock edge and pop tone thanks
to producers Björn Yttling (of Peter Bjorn and John)
and Paul Epworth (Bloc Party).
The album opens with the title track, Beautiful Future,
which sets the tone for the first half of the record : electro pop-rock
goodness.
Can’t
Go Back is the current single and sounds like it would be
just as comfortably performed by Get
Ready-era New
Order as by Primal
Scream. Actually, the New
Order vibe is evident across many of the tracks on the
album, especially closing track Glory
of Love.
Towards the end of the album things slow down a little for the chilled
out Over & Over
cover, but only long enough to catch your breath before Josh Homme
kicks in with Necro Hex
Blues.
This is an impressive album from one of the UK’s longest running, most
chaotic bands. Somehow Gillespie continues to reinvent the sound of the
group while maintaining the dance and rock grove that Scream fans
expect.
RATING:
3 out of 5
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