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Primal Scream - Vanishing Point (1997)
Cover Front Album
Artist/Composer Primal Scream
Format MP3
Genre Electronica; General Alternative
Label Sire/Reprise
Index 1754
Collection Status In Collection
Packaging Hard Disk
Track List
01 Burning Wheel
02 Get Duffy
03 Kowalski
04 Star
05 If They Move, Kill 'Em
06 Out Of The Void
07 Stuka
08 Medication
09 Motorhead
10 Trainspotting
11 Long Life
Personal Details
Links Amazon US
Amazon UK
Details
Spars DDD
Rare No
Sound Stereo
UPC (Barcode) 4988010679224
Notes
Primal Scream found themselves in danger of losing their hip audience in the wake of their misconceived trad-rock record, Give Out but Don't Give Up. As a reaction, they returned to the genre-bending, electronic dance-rock of the seminal Screamadelica for Give Out's follow-up, Vanishing Point. Instead of recycling the dazzlingly bright neo-psychedelia of Screamadelica, Primal Scream reaches deep into cavernous dub and '60s pop. Vanishing Point is a dark, trippy album, filled with mind-bending rhythms and cinematic flourishes. The addition of former Stone Roses bassist Mani to the Scream gives their music an organically funky foundation that had been lacking. Over those rhythms are samples, reverbed guitars, and synthesizers that echo spy movies, Southern soul, and the Stones. Above anything else, Vanishing Point is about sound and groove. Words remain a weak point for Bobby Gillespie, who only manages cohesive lyrics on the swirling "Burning Wheel" and "Star," but that is a secondary concern, since Primal Scream is at its best when working the rhythms. Songs like "Kowaliski" and, in particular, the extended instrumentals of "Get Duffy" and "Trainspotting" illustrate that the group is still capable of creating exotic, thoroughly entrancing sounds, which is what makes Vanshing Point a remarkable comeback