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This is weird but I liked it. A lot calmer and chilled than I expected off the name and genre, would have made a good soundtrack to Vanishing Point.
From the name alone I dreaded this album and wondered if it’d be another Napalm Death, so I was caught off guard when I didn’t hate what I heard. The album showcases a variety of instrumentals, from the accordion in “Star” to the catchy guitar riff in “Medication.” “Stuka” reminds me of “On The Run” from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, and “Kowalski” sounds more like one of those prehistoric three-foot-long dragonflies got stuck in the Matrix than a penguin that got stuck in Madagascar. “Get Duffy,” and the album in general, sounds like James Bond on quaaludes. If one were to ask what it sounds like to cross metal with nineties alternative, Primal Scream’s Vanishing Point would be the answer, with a strong focus on the “nineties alternative.” There wasn’t much that stood out to me, but at least it wasn’t death metal.
I found this to be way better than Screamadelica, so a pleasant surprise indeed! Still meanders a bit through the long runtime though.
Part dystopian noir, part psychedelic acid trip, part britpop. Vanishing Points is definitely more interesting than Screamadelica, but having listened to both of those albums now I’m convinced Primal Scream had absolutely no clue what band they wanted to be. It’s all over the place.
As much the producers record as the band's, an interesting listen that I feel I haven't quite understood. But as background or purely for entertainment rather than logic, very enjoyable.
Interesting listen. Definitely a right place, right time thing
Was focused on work so I didn't take notes but I was surprised at how much I liked this! Went in expecting screamo/metal and ended up getting something much more subtle and interesting. I'll give this another listen, for sure! 4/5 stars
I've never heard this album before and it rips! I love how psychedelic it is but still has that heavy krautrock thing going on. Particularly the bass was really cool, a lot of it was hypnotic in how repetitive but driving it was.
Meh
There were moments on this I really enjoyed, and quite a few others which were a bit 1990s-naffpop. Kind of Stone Roses meets vague electro. I'd give it another listen for sure.
The beginning of this album makes me feel like I'm inside an episode of Stranger Things. I'm intrigued. Not bad for listening to while working or concentraing on other things. Interesting but not distracting.
Kind of all over the place, but I enjoyed
I have listened to this album three times and I have the feeling I'm missing things. I'm not getting it. It probably deserves more listens to fully get it, but life's too short
This was a pretty fun time that I definitely would never have listened to otherwise
Love the experimentation. Different styles and genres.
been on a bit of a downer on the scream recently as i've come to the realisation that Bobby Gillespie is a bit of a bell end. always kind of knew it but i read his book and he proper gives it the big i am about being right on and makes out like he's some enlightened being when really he's a ned who will take what he can and shaft people along the way, like his former band mates. revisiting this album though has calmed those feelings and replaced them with the question of how the fuck do a bunch of glaswegian bag heads come up with something like this? when you look at the screams back catalogue they've hopped genre almost every album and done it successfully. as much as i think he's a lucky chancer he must have something about him to have made the albums they've made.
Damien Duff
Too many of these already.
Living up to their name, this album provided little, combining a genre I can somewhat tolerate (Krautrock) with a genre I tend to find completely unnecessary (90s electronic), this just doesn't bode well and doesn't offer anything appealing
A few good songs, the rest seem ok.... Standouts: Kowalski, Star 3/5
No idea what to expect here... Slow build on the lead track eventually gives way to a psych-infused instrumental with 90s electronic drum that seems so typical of the UK indie scene during this era. Sounds just like a Verve song from the album a few weeks ago. Tis early yet, but this feels like a good album to shoot heroin to. Get Duffy is an sprawling instrumental groove. Nice funky background music. Were this about 2 minutes shorter, I could mistake this as an instrumental interlude on Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty. Kowalski is lead by a driving bass riff and warbling electronic sounds. Seems ready made for a galaxy hopping sci-fi flick. It jams. Drops back into chilled-out "Star." Kind of a boring song imo. Feels like a B-Side Gorillaz song. I like If They Move, Kill 'Em a lot. Funky palm guitar work with a hip-hop drum track and some horns forming the emphasis mid-section. This is a cool one. This blends seamlessly into Out of This Void which is another spacey number with plenty of psych effects and sounds swirling behind an otherwise minimal keys arrangement. This one-two is the high-water mark of the album thus far. Stuka is a cool electro-dubby song. Steezy and once again reminiscent of Gorillaz in a sense. Medication is the most straightforward rock song I think this album has. It has a fuzziness to the production and delivery that reminds me of Spoon. Trainspotting is a cool song. Sounds like the intro was recorded in a sewer or something with some slick drums and guitar introduced a minute and a half in. Creates a cool, tripped-out atmosphere. I honestly was expecting to be disappointed going into this album and by the opener, but have been pleasantly surprised. This album absolutely jams. Filled front to back with psych and funk infused electro indie jams, this was not the generic euro rock-pop that I thought it would be. While no individual song stands out as something I would replay over and over, I still call this a strong 4 / 5 that is better than the sum of its parts. I will absolutely jam this again in the future.
This is like electronic noise rock. Noisetronica if you will. Star was a pretty good song. Stuka was not. The singer reminds me of The Verve. Some of the experimental aspects remind me of Radiohead. Idk about this one. Found myself headbopping a couple times, but spent more time waiting for the album to finish up.
The first 2 songs were awesome to listen to on the beach. Then it definitely picks up starting at the third song I can't tell what type of genre this is but is quite cool Star is awesome. That is an instant add to a playlist Stuka is trippy as hell. The end with headphones on is wild Medication is completely different than the rest it sounds like the Strokes right in the middle of the album Trainspotting has an awesome build up into some really nice groovy guitar then into some sort of weird harmonoca This album is out of control I love it
Damn I had a really nice review written out here song for song and then my browser updated :( Anyways this album uses some crazy different instruments to enhance the psychedelia of this album. Between the melodica, the sitar, the sax, and trumpet it sounds genre-bending but not at the same time. Long life sounds like solo Thom Yorke. Absolutely adore. The instrumentals alone give this a 5/5 for me. It is the best kind of strange. Definitely an album to listen to in one sitting. My fav type of album. Kept trying to find a reason to not give this a 5 but this album makes me feel like I'm on drugs. Now I want to take all the drugs and listen to it.
Partly good
This album is weird.
This is the second fifth studio album in a row! They've stepped it up. Just plain weird. Inconsistent. Difficult to get into the groove... hmm, makes me want to listen to Madonna. Why is there only one Madonna in this list?
Much more interesting then i expected. Burning Wheel starts with a more traditional alt rock sound, but afterwards there's a lot more driving groove and vibe-oriented segments/tracks. Get Duffy is pretty low key, but they ramp up with songs like Stuka and Motorheard (though I think the lower key ones are better). An interesting listen.
I wouldn't list this album in anything worthy of dying for, but I find the music nice and varied. Definitely Primal Scream, but also different to other Primal Scream material.
Nearly a three, liked several of the tracks more than anything from Screamadelica but none of them meshed well to form an actual statement as an LP. Wish there had been more focus on the synths mixed with the pounding drums and lively guitar, this at times almost felt evocative of proto-Black Moth Super Rainbow and I would've been all over that.
This album seemed a bit better and more cohesive than the previous primal scream album. This is a poorly named band as well. Really gives the impression that the music would be different. This album had good instrumentals and the songs felt like an earlier Spoon. Overall it was okay and had replay value. 6.0/10
Genres: Electronic rock, dub, neo-psychedelia, krautrock Formed: Glasgow, Scotland in 1982 Run time: 25 songs, 2 hr, 7 min (Extended Edition) The fifth studio album by Scottish rock band. Spotify: Least popular song: >18k Most popular song: almost 3.5M plays. The songs on the album are very eclectic. The contrast between the high energy rock of "Kowalski" and the following track "Star" (which is quite gentle) is disconcerting. I enjoyed the instrumental track 5, “If They Move Kill ‘Em”. It’s like Funk and Electronic had a baby and this was the result. The general theme of the album is our struggle through life. It looks at the darker side of our journey, examining mental illness, medication and internal conflict. It’s not all dark and some of the instrumentals are quite light in comparison. I like the mood of an album to be consistent, but this takes us on a roller-coaster journey through life; the ups and the down, the good and the bad. Listen Again?: Possibly My Rating: ***
Not sure about this. I expected to hate it but when it started off I thought ‘ah nice one’. A bit trippy, bit weird. But after about 3 or 4 songs that are cookie cutters of the previous it gets old very quickly. Sounds like they just ran out of ideas. And some of the lyrics are lazy as fuck. Proper 6th form poet stuff at times. Not for me.
Was not impressed for the first half, seemed to switch between ambient electronic music and fairly run if the mill rock songs. Grew on me as it went on, some of the songs reminded of me of lighter Smashing Pumpkins stuff, particularly the last song. Overall it was okay.
I didn't really enjoy it - genuinely didn't realise it was on. Hesitant between a 1 and a 2, but I can't say I hated it. It just didn't stand out.
This was an awful album. I didn't even enjoy it as background because there were so many jarring/annoying sounds throughout the album. I couldn't even finish the album because it annoyed me so much.
This passed me by a bit, thought some of it was ok, but largely didn't really enjoy it. The songs with the robot voice thing annoyed me, but the ones with guitars were better. Medication was probably the best track, actually the last few weren't bad Won't be listening again
Before listening… I am confident when I say this is the worst cover of any album on this list. Absolutely no way I ever come across a worse one. What the hell. I really dont like the industrial-techno 90s vibe. Didn’t like it back then and it hasn’t aged well. I also don’t like 60s psychedelia, and the 90s version ain’t much better.
Indie rokk með dashi af psychadeliu. Nokkuð gott en engin sprengja.
Overwrought
Meh.
2nd Primal Scream album on the list, Screamadelica I had listen, this one I have not. I really enjoyed this and honestly I wish I had listen to this when it release I would have enjoyed it more then. More rock oriented and more suited to my listen style now, basically while I work.
I liked the dub sound of Stuka. That is all.
About the same as the other album we listened to from them. I did like the few songs that were more rock.
I didn't love the first Primal Scream album I listened to, and I liked this one less. I don't understand why this is on the list, outside of a small pocket of people in the UK, who is listening to this?
Another Primal Scream. You can just say there are aren't 1001 albums worth listening to. We don't have to keep up this charade. This isn't even that bad. We've had way worse. But there's still so much better out there. Beyonce, Ween, Breeders, De la Soul... but we have two Primal Scream albums? Come on.
Interesting, but a mixed bag to my ears. I like some of the instrumental stuff like \"Get Duffy,\" but not all of the instrumental stuff. Same goes for the tunes with vocals; \"Long Life\" is cool and laid back, \"Medication\" is the opposite of that, and while I don't hate either neither one sounds particularly original to me. Mostly I just have questions. Does this genre have a name? Does it need one? Is it cool to just names songs \"Motorhead\" and \"Trainspotting\" without neither one being as good as the things they're named after? I don't know. I'm on the fence and not moving.
Seeing that this album was meant to be a "sort of" movie soundtrack makes sense. It's an eclectic mixture of mood-music with the odd vocals thrown in here and there. I was looking forward to the cover of Motorhead, but that actually felt a bit dull then it finally came along. Lots of Happy Mondays vibes. I hovered between a 3-star and 4-star rating, but in the end I think this would be great music to have on in the background and I'm going to go for the higher score for that reason alone.
3-4
This was a weird one. There were a good amount of things I did kinda like, such as all the trip-hop influences this seems to have on it, some tracks even reminded me of Massive Attack. But it also kinda felt very disjointed with how many different genres were on this album, and then a bit pretentious with songs like Star (those lyrics were horrid). A three sounds fair I guess.
Not very good. Very experimental boring music, with no real stand out songs. And the cover of motorhead is awful. I quite like some of their other stuff, but this isn't for me.
2/11, 18%
Never having listened to this band before, I didn't know what to expect. I then read the wiki page and my expectations were pretty low. But this weird genre mash-up that actually does feel like the soundtrack of a hypothetical movie actually works and sounds pretty good. It probably helps that it isn't actually a soundtrack and thereby not bound to the needs of the film material. Be that as it may, I enjoyed it.
Best prima, maar niet geweldig.
Bobby Gillespie is a genius. There is so much variety and experimentation here and it’s all superb. The drums are hypnotic under the accompanying instrumentation, with poetically pointed lyrics overtop.
Weird ambient low energy nothing of an album
pretty gangstered sounding but anxiety's going ape-mode today so definitely could've enjoyed it more on another day, so in reality like 3 stars but I know it'd be 4 on a good day
Versatile album, but none of the songs really stick
This was okay. Not the biggest fan of electronica / this style of music, but it was easy background listening.
Electrónica.
"Vanishing Point" is the fifth studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream. The album inspiration was from the genres of dub, dance music and krautrock and the bands Can, Motörhead and The Stooges. I'd also toss "Twitch"-era Ministry too. It was the first album with Stone Roses' bassist Gary "Mani" Mounfield and had guest appearances from Augustus Pablo, Glen Matlock and The Memphis Horns. Lead Singer Bobby Gillespie described the album as an anarcho-syndicast speedfreak road-movie record. Woah! It was named after the 1971 film of the same name and reached #2 on the UK charts. "Burning Wheel" starts with water drips. Wind and high pitch noises. A beat kicks in as does a pyschedelic guitar. Krautrock and Can ✔️. Repetitive guitar and eerie noises. Hmmmm. A guy introduces radio hero Kowalski on the first single "Kowalski." Space sounds and rapping. The drum sample is from Can's "Hallelujah" and the bass line sample is from Funkadelic's "Get Off Your Ass." The intent was an alternate soundtrack to the "Vanishing Point" movie. It does sound like movie music. The second single was "Star" and we're kind of back to a more pop song. Gillespie is actually singing. There's a melodica and The Memphis Horns. A slow beat and a tambourine. A good song. Hey, hey, a wah-wah groovy guitar in the instrumental "If They Move, Kill 'Em." OK, we can check the Stooges with the wah-wah guitar. A dance beat and some very irritating high-pitched noises. The band covers Motörhead in the song"Motörhead." Gillespie sings through a Darth Vader mask in the first verse. Drum machine. Random noises. The vocal mix is really low. This cover is almost unrecognizable from the original. The band goes back to krautrock in "Trainspotting." Carribean and spy guitar. The beat and percussion are bossa nova-like. And, a kaleidoscope of random noises layered on top. This is interesting, trippy and creepy (at times). I'm not sure it works as a cohesive album with soundtrack songs, krautrock songs and standard rock/pop songs compiled together. Although, they were several years ahead of Radiohead's "Kid A" as some of these songs are also in the deconstructed, minimal melody area. I give the band an "A" for effort in originality. If you're already a Primal Scream or krautrock fan, they'll be songs you like here.
Just ok.
not my cup of tea
i thought this was pretty alright. ambience and atmosphere feels coherent for what its going for but i just wasnt hooked
Meandery, rock I guess?
Interesting, don't know if I would listen to it again though
Very late 90s, very busy, not my thing. A few interesting tracks, some variety I can get behind.
Another Primal Scream album... doesn't seem like they deserve 2 albums in the top 1,001, but maybe that's just me. I did enjoy some of the songs. Trainspotting was a good one! On the second playthrough, I did enjoy this album a lot more. It was OK. Very 90's. Solid 3.
Cool mix of music. Not sure which primal scream I liked more. This one is based off of a movie that seems to be very popular among musicians. I’ll have to watch it.
Enough Primal Scream! I'm sick of it! This album was not very good. It's like a mix of fairly normal rock songs and then these instrumental/industrial bits that go on too long. What was the band going for here? Trainspotting is 6 minutes too long - like I get it you use more than 4 instruments, cool. This is the first album I seriously considered submitting this review half way through.
It didn’t horribly offend me, much to my surprise. But I don’t need to listen to these guys for the rest of my Long Life. I think we’ve gotten our fix. One thing I do admire about these guys is the focus on variety - sounds, instruments, song types. They like to change it up, which is cool. Motörhead is a sneaky little banger near the end of the record.
There's some ok stuff sprinkled in here but you almost forget about it amidst the sea of boring noises.
Pass
I don't get it
Meh
"The Lack of Focus: An Experiment" should be the name of this album.
This is I think is on thegood side of eh, not what I was expecting at all and very all over the place but I think overall it's missing something
In which the author(s) wanted a Nine Inch Nails record but needed another UK band to feed their bias. 2.5/5.
Some duds but some absolute bangers
Pretty okay background music
Bass really stands out, hate the vocals.
Good,album. But top 1001 I’m not sure.
Once again, the genius of Andrew Weatherall (and Martin Duffy) shine through on this album. Any time you sense their hand firmly on the tiller it's a dubby, dark, claustrophobic masterpiece. Any time you sense Bobby Gillespie has taken charge, it's pants. Medication, for example, or some of the 'edgy' bits on Kowalski. The one exception is Still, it was my introduction to dub and echo as an instrument in itself, and I'll always love it for that.
Decent variety, but not memorable
pretty good 4-star rock right here.
Had a hard time deciding whether this was good experimental stuff, or not. It definiely sounded very 90's for me somehow, and I liked some songs as mood setter background music, but the album never really punch through for me. The only track that really caught my attention was Trainspotting, which I liked, but that's not enough to cover up for the rest. I think this is going to have to be one of those albums that tried valiantly with its quirkiness, and ended up on the wrong side of the line. Still, not by any means so bad that I'd say "there's nothing I enjoy in this, burn it". 2 stars.
Eipä ihmeitä tarjonnut. Tässä haasteessa jo klassinen tilanne eli pari ihan hyvää biisiä ja loput skeidaa.
Sekavan ahdistava. En saanu kii, vaikka välillä oli ihan lupaaviakin biisejä. 2/5
For a band called Primal Scream I was expecting a lot more, you know “screaming”. However this album was a lot different experience to that. I found this album to be a strange mix of electronic and prog rock, with a lot of very hard to pin down points and no songs really following a typical song structure. For example I found ‘Kowalski’ to be incredibly spaced out and forward thinking with its limited lyrics and emphasis on electronic noises whereas the following track ‘Star’ is a lot more subtle with some relaxed sung lyrics about fighting for rights for minority groups. Now although I like the spaces out sort of sound they’re going for I much prefer their more to the point songs such as ‘Medication’ that has a driving guitar riff but I can understand why there’s the variety as an album full of theses type of songs would eventually end up sounding fairly derivative. As much as I appreciate what this album is going for I found the beginning and ends a little bit of a let down compared to the core of the record which is what brings it down for me but I will be returning to this as I feel it’s one of those albums I will come to appreciate a lot more over time.
Dubby goodness
Es impresionante como me condiciona una portada a la hora de escucuhar un disco. No hay una cancion mala, es impresionante. A pesar de esto, es que se me hizo un poquito, pero un poquito largo el disco. Igualmente es un muy buen disco que pone en juego un genero que desconocia. es impresionante como el caos psicodelico de musica de persecucion funciona 8/10.
My experience with Primal Scream is limited. I was introduced to the band with XTRMNTR. I love that album and held the band in high regard because of it. I listened to Screamadelica, but wasn't impressed. Then I kind of left it there. I assume there is some merit on this album, but I'm not sure what it is. On a whole I was thoroughly bored throughout this album. I don't quite get my relationship with Primal Scream anymore.
Pretty nice record. Motörhead is a huge hit
I'll call this the ambient industrial genre. The songs are off the beaten track which is good for the time when this was released.
Interesting that this is an “alternative soundtrack” for a 1971 film. It sounds pretty mellow considering the film has been called a “speed freak road movie” and would have a lot of car chases. The LP is soundtrack like, meaning a lot of songs could be played in the background. “Kowalski” is not your typical single, but in light of all of Prodigy’s 1997 hits, it’s not surprising that this would make the UK charts. “Medication” is my favourite song.
This is basically just ambient background music. I actually don't mind it at all. A lot of it is quite experimental and bit weird, some of it repetitive af, but overall I mostly enjoyed this Saved tracks: Burning Wheel, Kowalski, Medication, Trainspotting
Really hate to rate this one so low as I think Screamadelica is in my top 10 of all time and I actually really like their more bluesy stuff they did in the early 90s and the 2000s. This was just a mess though of no direction. Just layering on sounds and expecting magic would happen in the final product.
Album didn’t grab me. Music didn’t engage me and I couldn’t appreciate it.
Ethereal and a little annoying to listen to tbh
A sort of alternative to the big beat bands of the 90's, Primal Scream leaned into elements of rock music for their dance records. It's a particularly psychedelic dance record. It's as if Primal Scream wanted to elicit the seedy urban underbelly after a late night of dancing. The party rages on, but beware of what's out there.
sympatoche en fond mais j'écouterais pas activement
Fun electronic-influenced music with plenty of psychedelic style. But really, there’s a wide array of sounds here depending on the song. Some of it is vibey mood music, some leans more towards rock, some is more like dance. The 10-plus minute “Trainspotting” has a loose jazzy style and a hip-hop beat. Eclectic album! They must have a sense of humor calling themselves Primal Scream, knowing that people are constantly going to think they’re a different type of band. They get hard on a few tracks but you’d think they’re a hardcore metal band or something based on the name.
What a great band name- I love a good primal scream when I get a chance to regurgitate one. I dig this collage album cover too. I think this time period had a lot of album covers that had these slow-shutter-speed photos of movement in them and it hits both a nostalgia thing for me and also a visually emotional thing for me. Seeing a car with all of that blurry "movement" just gives me a feeling. The auto-pan of some instrument(s) on track one is very annoying. Super slow and gradual, the left to right to left to right is honestly just a nuisance. I'm not listening on headphones and usually panning is even more obvious when listening on headphones and I just feel "bleh" about that idea. The visuals are kind of where my enjoyment of this album stops. The heavy handed panning continues throughout the record, the songs feel kind of uninspired, and nothing really jumps out at me. If I was in a record store and I saw this album cover and the type on it, I would expect something energetic and exciting. I don't really get that here. The second most listened to song, "Star" is a laid back super positive sappy song that just hangs around a chord progression. The first song actually has some interesting elements and tension and release going on, but then they throw you into a weed den on track 2 with a track that is so laid back that the exciting voice is a bass clarinet that does a total of 0 exciting things. Of course this instrument is autopanned too because why not... I read that this was supposed to be like an alternative soundtrack to the movie "Vanishing Point" without any actual input from the movie people- so this is all just an album from this band that they made that is really influenced by the movie. That's interesting, and I can see some of these songs being OK to listen to while driving. I can appreciate the moments that are inspired by the dub genre, like in "Stuka", it has some interesting delayed conga hits along with the typical dub repetitive bassline. But that's kind of it- it's just a band that took some elements from a genre that is different and made some songs in that style. Maybe I'm being a little harsh but I didn't like this. I want to give it a 1/5 because I really didn't enjoy it and I hesitate to say it should definitely be on this list. I've given maybe half of the tracks a re-listen and I think it's fair to give it a 2.
I love one half and hate the other.
Life's too short for this
Strong though occasionally overreaching in the direction of abstraction and obscurity. "Stuka" doesn't work nearly as well as "Trainspotting," say. "Star" is easily the best cut. The rave-y neo-hippie vibe has aged reasonably well.
I have never heard of this band. At first, it looks like it should be a metal record. It isn't. It's listed as "Alternative". So, the first song starts. Yes, alternative. The first few songs are pretty good: Good beats, groove, and sound. The next songs are just mediocre. It's good to be able to hear stuff like this from time to time.
I can't figure out if I love or hate this. I’ll split the difference and give it three stars.
rocklåtarna är ju goa men dom är få. resten är hopplöst
Not for me clive
Misleading band name. I didn't hate this album at first, but it just kept going.
pretty decent album, it would be a 9/10 if i was currently on an mdma comedown and having a mental breakdown
53 minutes of non songs. Cool... Not! This is bad. Another time I've questioned why it's on the list.
It was alright. I wasn’t blown away by anything. I was completely duped by the album and art and band name. I thought it would be some kind of screamo metal. Ultimately I’m not sure why this is on the list.
boring fuzzed rock
this is such a curate's egg album. A base layer of echo-ey dub, but there's thrash, 70s dub reggae, ballads and pretty much everything. Accordingly, no focus though a pleasant enough listen. The kind of album a band makes after a golden run comes to an end.
Totally competent and listenable, some cool stuff but nothing that made me go “oh damn, okay Primal Scream!”
Meh..... Hahaha it's very okay but I'm definitely not blown away.
A lot more mellow and articulated than "an anarcho-syndicalist speedfreak road-movie record" made it sound. Certainly cinematic but overall a bit underwhelming. Everything from design to description made this sound like a thrash album and it just wasn't
Oh no... There is another Primal Scream record on this generator? Wasn't it torture enough to suffer through Screamadelica.... Apparently not. Why is every Scottish band on this generator bland as fuck? Where is the Celtic music? Where are the bagpipes? Is it too much to ask that you inject some energy into your music? As stated above, here is another album which has no signs of life... Just robotic boops and synthesized electronic garbage. This album generator has taught me that electronica as a whole is an awful genre.... Everything on that spectrum is talentless trash. I feel like Primal Scream was trying to do something that The Prodigy saw, took, and mastered. I don't mind the Prodigy's stuff, because it has a pulse. They put so much energy into what they do, whereas these idiots are dead in the water. Apparently the band loved the movie Vanishing Point, but didn't think the soundtrack did the movie justice, so a few songs on here are dedicated to that movie, and that's how the album got its name. Like the movie, this "album" is awful, and will be forgotten quickly. No redeeming qualities at all. Favourite songs: Medication (a perfectly good rock song. They kept the electronica horse shit out of this song. Why can't the whole album be more like this?), Motorhead (could have been a better song had they kept the electronica garbage and shouting robot sounds out of it) Least favourite songs: Stuka (sounds like it's sung by a robot who loves theramins), Burning Wheel (it takes a minute and a half for anything to happen), Get Duffy, Kowalski, Out of the Void, Long Life 2/5.
Meh.
Surprisingly groovy with an assortment of melodies, and slick beats on par with the late 90s, this was an enjoyable listen. In particular, the track "Trainspotting" was well done and was a fine choice for near the end of the album.
It sounds like Beatles during psychedelic phase but the album came out in '97 meh
At times I felt I was at a loading screen for Animal crossing
Pretty solid electronic, was not expecting it.
Fascinating album, new to me. Number of music styles is amazing, is this Primal Screams' Sandinista? With the dub of Stuka as best song. Even better: the link at YouTube had additional B-sides, Jesus sounds like Velvet Underground and would have been great VU song. And the Stranglers cover of 96 tears was fun.
It was a vibe
I never really got it with these guys. Just listen to the rolling stones or oasis or, failing that, a good band composed of more than a semblance of an attitude and a haircut. It's all just fine. Fine
Hard to listen to. Too sporadic.
Pas convaincu par la proposition mais elle existe au moins Les deux premiers morceaux sont biens
PREFS : Burning Wheel, Kowalski, Motörhead, Trainspotting, Long Life MOINS PREF : Stuka
I thought Primal Scream was a lot harder music. I liked this album fine, but it didn't really hit me. It was kind of background music.
Interesting. Not my thing. 2/5
I will be disappointed if this is the only PS album in the list. In my opinion not their best but still good.
techno
Not very pleasant to listen to and kind of annoying sound to it all. Not a fan of this music.
This album was pretty cool. The unique instrumentation definitely worked for me, and it didn't feel weird for the sake of being weird. Favorite track: If They Move, Kill 'Em
Pas tant impressionné, pas particulièrement mauvais, mais les changements constants de genre brise le flux de l'album. Je mettrais 5/10
2.5
First of all, XTRMNTR is a better album than this one, and should have be chosen to accompany Screamadelica in the book. That said, this is a good album with some great tracks, let down by a few weak ones.
Not pure electronic, but yet another 90s electronic album
Meh
Notes of this and that...overall too diverse sonically for my ear to get a hold of it in any kind of satisfying way. I took to the more shoegaze and aggressive elements, but other parts less so. For an album named Vanishing Point there's a surprising lack of focus.
it was alright! cool noise.
Very little I enjoyed on this album. Overall the first half was better than the second half. Songs like "Get Duffy" and "Star" work, but otherwise a difficult album for me to get through.
Primal Scream have such a unique sound and its very previlent in this album. All the songs just flow nicely from one to the other, not even realising its a new song. Making it a great experiance though not as good as 'Screamadelica'. (8-9/10)
Genial Album!
So BORING. I've heard the name of the band before but nothing beyond that. With a name like Primal Scream I was hoping that this was going to rock my face off. It didn't. It just went on and did nothing to pique my interest qt all. I don't get why this is here. Just awful. It
3.5/5. Bit too experimental and eccentric for me but it's still respectable.
I did not like this one. I liked a single song. Won’t listen again.
5/10 had some interesting parts but overall it mostly just felt like background music.
5/10. It was cool how different each song was from the others, it's just that I only really enjoyed like a third of them.
Snoozer. 5/10
Aika jännä kokonaisuus mutta ei niin jännä, että jaksaisi koko ajan keskittyä. Onneksi pari kertaa yllätetään jollain soittimella tai "genrevaihdoksella".
Psykedeelistä tunnelmointia, josta suuri osa skipattavaa, vaikkakaan ei kaikki.
'Rocks' use to be my favourite song. Still rocks!
I like the back half of the album - Medication, Motorhead, Trainspotting, and Long Life do set a vibe while being distinct from one another. However, there are other "vibe" albums that I like more. Another reviewer said this is very reminiscent of a specific time and place and era, and that it doesn't really hold up longterm, and I'd agree with that assessment.
Rock electrónico y neo-psicodelia. Ni fu ni fa.
This album did not impress me, but I still found it quite solid. It's a more than decent record, just not memorable.
Decent
Descriptions left me expecting something a little more more fast and furious, this was more experimental, though not in a bad way. It had that tendency to fade into background music for me however.
1st December 2022 Listened while driving to Mum and Dad’s and throughout the day. Finished on the 2nd. Not what I’d expect from Primal Scream who I knew more of an indie rock band, this was more experimental with an indie edge.
I am new to Primal Scream, I understand from research that they formed a signature of making every album extremely different. I like the idea that this album was their recreation of the soundtrack for some cult following underground film which they felt the soundtrack was all wrong for! It really does feel like a soundtrack listening to it and quite a cool one at that. I had no idea a Primal Scream album would be so chilled as this and I really like the sound of it. It's a mix of things I really like. I'm not quite following lyrics or meaning but that's probably because I do not know this random film at all. It's nice music to work to.
I felt a bit lost in this album to be honest, I'm not sure what I made of it! Some of it was a bit meh, but I liked how varied it was. And even the ones I wasn't as bothered I liked how iconic they were of a time, like this was the 'cool' music I imagine, messing around with mad synths etc.
I find Primal Scream a strange band, I don't know why but every time I listen I think 'this isn't what I expected' but I do like it
I've grown to see a 50+ minute-long 90s electronic album from this list and assume it's gonna be long and tedious, but Primal Scream (known for the famous Madchester masterpiece Screamadelica) shows us you could produce a fusion of psychedelia, electronica, and ambiance with a strong rock base to produce something unique and exciting. Every track is busy with industrial and space-like noises to create a strange alien ambient landscape. It's a lot more mellow and subtle than their other records, and although I do think it's weaker than Screamadelica, it's held together by a consistency by fits a certain mood if I'm looking to have this as cool background music or to disassociate into other worlds with. I do prefer the tracks with Gillespie's eery vocals. There were several weak songs, and yes I guess it didn't completely escape from the lengthiness of 90s electronica, but I did find something enjoyable about every one. Favorites: Burning Wheel, Star, Medication, Trainspotting
Probably my favourite Scream album
I like this album 4/5
Very 90s
strange album
I do like some primal scream. Fun listen
Rock un tanto psicodélico. Suave. Pensaba que iba a ser de otro estilo más cañero. Algo decepcionado
Couldn’t get into it but I’m sure it’s fine
I'm a Primal Scream fan so this is loaded with bias. It's not their finest album but it is another excellent trippy journey. Stand out tracks - Burning Wheel - Star - Get Duffy - Kowalski - Trainspotting
Wtf even is this. It's like Bob Dylan does alternative with reggae influences? I didn't find much to like.
Cet album est un peu à l'image des raviolis aux fraises dans le sens où on sent qu'il y a de l'idée mais le résultat est pas franchement convaincant.
Cet album ne recolte que mon plus grand desintérêt, et ce n'est certainement pas le prochain album de Brian Eno qui risque de redresser la barre.
Good
i listened to the album but i cant rememberr a thing
Some songs are really cool but most of them were nothing i enjoyed
Sound like an imitation of Smashing Pumpkins.
It's got at least 2 bangers in Stars and Medication, so the album gets at least a 3 for them. I expected a bit more from this as I'm pretty fond of Primal Scream, not to mention that 90s British drug vibe. Never felt fully cohesive as an album, with the sounds and influences jumping around too much to form a strong centre. Didn't dislike it though, and it kind of creates an an atmosphere, as the band describe it as 'an anarcho-syndicalist speedfreak road-movie record' which I personally don't entirely feel or understand. 2/11/22
Didn’t like
I thought this was going to be aggressive and annoying based on the band name and the cover art. Instead it inspired apathy.
To me this is a major improvement over "Screamadelica." I sort of enjoy the unfocused, atmospheric mess of this, and the influences are top notch. I hear wafts of Can beats, samples of Miles Davis' fusion material, some Stooges rock that slaps you in the face out of nowhere, and of course a strong Dub influence (with Augustus Pablo on melodica no less!). I'm into the hazy, druggy, loose, kitchen sink experimentation of it all. Using the Vader mask on "Motorhead" is a good clue that they weren't taking themselves too seriously and were just fucking around, having fun, and being themselves. Probably would've been a blast to hang out with them during the recording of this. Having disliked "Screamadelica" (I rated it a 2), I thought I was going to hate this. But I have to say, as I continue to listen to this album, I've gotta give them the Most Improved Artist award. Actually kinda regret I wasn't into this upon it's initial release as it would've been right up my alley.
Based on the cover art, I was expecting some shitty 90s butt-rock but I'm pleasantly surprised. Like some weird jammy dub-ambient at times, it's unique for sure. I can appreciate the genre-bending but it doesn't exactly mesh well with what I'd be looking for. Trainspotting is prob the coolest track though, total vibe.
Definitely varied and interesting. I dig the dub influence across it.
I don’t love the lead vocalist. The rest of the instrumentation is pretty cool Medication is a pretty standout song. This is one of those albums where I could see myself giving other albums by them a 5 but this just slightly missed that mark
another reviewer described it as “background music” and i feel that
I just really don't care about Primal Scream whatsoever. For some reason I just cannot seem to enjoy anything I've heard from them, there was nothing offensively bad that I disliked on this album, but even as background music at the gym it was completely boring me and I was just waiting for it to end. 1.5/5
Good album, cool theme. Only one outstanding track though. 3/5
This album had a lot going on. I really liked a bit of it. I really didn't like other bits of it. And the rest I wasn't so sure. I could have used a bit more time maybe for this one. As it was, I just didn't feel the vision and my reactions to the songs were all very different. I did tend to like the instrumentals more than the vocal songs. I kind of like the James Bond/John Barry sound on "If They Move, Kill 'Em" and "Trainspotting." Other numbers, not so much.
I was afraid when I saw the album cover, but this album kept me invested with repeated listens.
I was expecting a band called Primal Scream to be screamier. They weren't! Mostly chill dance vibes here. The dance tracks are far better than the others. Star, a song with a message, is particularly on the nose and a little cringey. But overall, I enjoyed this. Groovy and sedate.
I was bracing for a heavy metal or hard rock assault, but instead this was psychedelic and trippy. The songs are an eclectic brew that really drew me in. Surprises everywhere including some great horns, clarinet, harmonica with that trippy synth throughout. Definitely need to keep Primal Scream on my radar because I loved this.
I barely remember a single thing about the other primal scream album and this one appears headed to the same fate. This is a good one to listen to high though. The interesting album drought continues I suppose.
C'est weird dans un bon sens, J'étais vraiment engagé dans l"albulm et l'écoute ne m'a pas du tout paru comme 1h de temps. 4
Gross (except for the few songs that sound like The Jesus and Mary Chain).
Cooooooool
Groovy and fairly varied, strong 3
Ok
With a name like Primal Scream, one might expect music that’s hard, nasty and brutish. Instead this album is melodic and flows easily from one song to the next, incorporating elements of dub and ambient music.
From my yoof
Well I wasn't expecting that. Enjoyable background music to work to, a couple songs rose above that (Burning Wheel, Out of the Void)
Hidden gem. Very good
Do all of the drugs before listening to this. Bit of a strange sound
I can see this album being divisive, but I had a lot of fun with it. Although this would drive me crazy if I was stuck in traffic.
If someone told me they hated this album i would completely get it, but i absolutely loved it!
Coooool
When Primal scream went electronic. Has great groovy elements, with some weird noisy soundscapes. Some work perfect, like Burning wheel, others become too weird to my taste though. But a solid album in general!
The instrumentals are very good. It's the vocals that bring this down into goofy 90s nonsense.
Varying vibes throughout the album, some tracks with nice vocals and others more based on electronic rock which were quite nice
Na een paar nr's afgezet. Kon er niet heel veel mee.
Ik dacht dat Prima Scream best leuke muziek maakte, maar dit is echt behoorlijk suf. Zelfs bij vlagen vervelend.
Ik heb vandaag een inhaalslag gemaakt met Primal scream, Black Sabbath en Suicide. Het was een moeilijke dag.
As if this project hasn't given me enough garbage from the UK in this lifetime, here's some nameless 90s shit that sounds like a mix of britpop and PS1 snowboarding game soundtrack. And it goes for ages. Pointless and useless. Fuck off. 1/5.
This album is almost great. It features a mix of house, dub, rock, ambient, and experimental electronic music. Most of this is executed very well. However, there are moments on some of the more experimental pieces which don't quite work. It's as if they heard Aphex Twin and tried to do what he did without actually putting the time in to learn how. The elements are there, but the arrangement is not. Luckily, these moments are few and far between. Nevertheless, this band cannot be said to have picked a lane and stayed in it and their willingness to try something new makes this an album that is great in the background, but is also rewarded with a closer listening.
Het heeft wel iets elektronisch, maar in het algemene is het mij iets te vage muziek. Sommige nummers zijn goed te luisteren, maar anderen spoel ik liever door.
90s alt rock, some hip hop influence perhaps? psychedelic at times, but in a more modern, urban-sounding way than early psychedelic rock Didn’t mind it but I didn’t care for it I can imagine why someone might think this was cool
Fun trip hop like album
I liked Kowalski and I like the vibe. Very Lost Highway kind of feel. Not sure I’d go back to it again though, as not much stood out for me.
This is a real revalation- of course I've heard these guys in passing but never really listened to this album. It's a real eclectic mix of style - not entirely original but I found this really enjoyable. Rock 'n roll and trip hop meets electronic industrial.
this was one interesting album. it contained a mix of rock, electronic, and punk. primal scream certainly kept us guessing because the sitar-like sound on "if they move, kill 'em" was astounding! with how heavy and unusual their electronic sounds were, i could hear influence from kraftwerk. this is an album that the focus wasn't so much on lyrics and vocals but instead the actual music and instruments. overall, an intriguing listen but not one i super enjoyed. sometimes the electronic sounds just became too much for me.
I couldn't quite decide whether or not I liked this album, so I listened to it a second time. I still don't really know how I feel about it. Parts of it are very interesting, experimental, and are very vibe-y, with an almost electronic new-age quality about them. Some of that new-age quality likely stems from some eastern influences I'm hearing nestled in the music. It honestly isn't half bad for some ambient music. Either way, I wasn't very wowed by it. I'd rate this at a high 2.-something, so I'm going to bump it up to 3.
Interesting...kept my attention
Weird, but not bad
shit had me creamin
Got excited when I saw 1997, but a bit of a letdown. I wasn’t a big fan of the instrumental/experimental parts.
The instrumental parts reminded me of video game background music. I enjoyed some of it, but for the most part the songs didn’t hold my attention very well.
Interesting….
All experimental filler noise, zero substance
Interesting sounds. Not bad but not for me.
Really liked the instrumental parts and the atmosphere on this album.
Usual eclectic collection of Rolling Stones-ish rock n roll alongside dancey trancey electronica. Kowalski shows signs of the aggressive electro indie to come in the next two albums. Ok, but still living in the shadow of Andy Weatherall's Screamadelica.
dissapointing
Well very nearly, 2 days before the 25th anniversary this comes up. Lovely. It does sort of feel its age to me this one, I guess because I lived through it and heard it lots at the time but not much since. This is the last Scream album I listened to in great detail. The 90s big beat style is front and centre. Medication is a hangover from when they thought they were the Rolling Stones and sounds a lot like 'Rocks', I can take or leave that one. Still, it's a very good album. The dub stuff is great, Long Life is great, Burning wheel is up there with the best things they've ever done, and Trainspotting stands up well, probably the one song on this album I have heard the most down the years in fact.
Meh
super good, can’t tell what my favorite song was, some time between Star, Trainspotting, or Long Life yeah just all around 10/10
There are often the right artists on this list but not the right album.
This band is so ludicrously inconsistent. Every so often you'll hear something badass, and then you'll get a really dated-sounding canned drum loop. It meanders from wiffly Britpop to big beat to electropop without any sort of flow to it. This is a band that could have benefited from a much better producer.
Dos de Primal Scream en la misma semana!!! A este le tengo cariño. Al final me lo compré en CD. Creo que tengo estos discos por inercia, sabiendo que hay canciones muy buenas y el resto es casi relleno. Tres canciones seguidas como "Kowalski". "Star" y "If They Move, Kill 'Em" ponen el nivel muy alto en este disco. Sin embargo, en general y a día de hoy aunque importante no es ninguna obra maestra.
As good as I remembered, most excellent!
They have a couple of songs, on other albums, that I absolutely love. Because of that I was very excited to listen to this. However, this album just plain sucked.
It was meh for me, but unobjectionable enough for me to give it a 2.25
So many phases of PSs backstory. I only really know the (obv) dancey Screamadelica and the MBV mayhem of EXTRMNTR...(I know there is an early "jangle" period and that bluesy rock era too) This is is like a psychedelic film soundtrack. Some interesting stuff but not sure when I would play it. Ho hum.
não é um screamadelica mas tá valendo demais
Music for earphones.
This kinda sucks. Might be the most 90s album yet. Everything from the 90s somehow sounds more outdated than anything from the 70s or 80s. 1 Even the coverart screams: "You wouldn't download a car" Some songs are listenable. "Motorhead" is pretty good. "Long Life" reminds me of something that could be good
Not my bag. Odd good song but can't imagine listening to the album in full again.
Was a surprise but just OK.
Gets a bit noisy and clangy, without being interesting enough to earn it.
This just plays like a soundtrack in my head...after a few rough albums this one has several tracks added to my list not including Trainspotting which was already under the obvious soundtrack list...
one of the easier to listen to albums i've recently been recommended by the list. not saying i like it, but at least it wasn't pushing me away. A lot of it melds together, giving it a soundtrack feels. Overall is a weirder album. No standouts
Didn't quite grab me as much as Screamadelica but still something I'd like to spend further time with. Fave: Trainspotting.
I hated this. It was the most bland, generic rock. The one meagre highlight was “Stuka,” but it’s not going on my highlights playlist because it still sucked. I want these 54 minutes of my life back.
Some tracks were really good, others were crap. Seemed to be a bit all over the place.
Pretty damn hott this album. Dance rock at it's best. I warmed to thus one more easily than Screamadelica, which still hasn't quite done it for me. But this album makes me want to try Screamadelica another spin see what I'm missing. Anyway Vanishing Point locks into some awesome dance grooves. Very enjoyable. 4 🌟
If it's called Primal Scream it should sound more like this: ahhhhhhhh
p802. 1997. 3 stars. Weird, but it's got something. It's like the soundtrack to a B movie., along with the associated risk of it becoming background music You have to be in the right mood for this otherwise I should imagine it gets tired very quickly. Worth listening to though.
I'm not inclined to say a band or an artist is "overrated", music obviously being an objective thing, but oh boy am I tempted to say that Primal Scream fits into such a category. I could personally tolerate the inclusion of *Screamadelica* in a list of so-called "mandatory listens, mostly because this particular album has something to say about the time and place it was realeased, with those UK club breakbeats and whatnot. But c'mon, let's be serious here for one second, fellas: even for that "historical" album, the writing is subpar at best, not to say totally lazy. Worse; some "songs' are just glorified instrumentals with a few vocal snippets here and there--and you'd have to take a shitload of MDMA to hear something substantial or even just fun in those tracks, something that's won't be there at all when you use more sober ears. What about this particular album then? Well, just like many other Primal Scream albums it just drones on in the background, a mixed bag with a few hooks here and there, but without any cohesion at all, and with moments of intensity that are too far and between. As usual, the main influence when it comes to the melodic lines come from the Rolling Stones, at least if you pay some attention. But it's a somewhat sanitized version of the Stones, mixed with the current trends of that year. Which amounts to say that in the end, there's not much to be found there in term of substance. At least Jagger, Richards and their pals knew a thing or two about how they could make a song feel "dirty"--in all senses of the word. Whereras in here, it's just a pale imitation, barely veiled by the supposed "high value" of its production shenanigans. The result is just boring to these particular set of ears here. And reading a lot of the other reviews in here, to many other ones as well... Number of records left to review or just listen to: 921 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 42 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 19 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more important to me): 19 (including this one)
This is mostly just drum and bass with a bunch of electronic effects over the top. Nothing of any interest. Some nice grooves, but going nowhere. I'd had enough after a couple of minutes, but I persevered for half a dozen tracks, getting more and more bored until the vibe changed with Medication. At first it sounded pretty good, I soon realized it was basically just 'rocks off' with different lyrics, so I'm not impressed.
Favorite song: Trainspotting.
Don’t hate this, but no standout hits for me. Not sure I’d ever listen to the whole album again.
Feels like a practice run for XTRMNTR. The Vanishing Point movie connection is more exciting in prospect than in reality. Like all Primal Scream records, it's better when Bobby isn't singing.
This album is terrific. Nicely crafted sound, beautifully trippy, musically creative and diverse. The tonal shifts from song to song are sometimes pretty weird and extreme, but somehow it works. Fave Songs: Star, Motörhead, Long Life, Medication, If They Move, Kill 'Em, Stuka
Good. Great noises. Solid 3. Not an iffy 3 but a solid 3.
Early dub and ambient. music to have a psychotic beak with reality to.
Kinda cool I suppose.
A proper trip. I've never gelled with much other Primal Scream stuff, but this album is a stoned killer.
Kind of a trippy album. I’m assuming, based on some of the samples in there, it’s loosely based on that late 60s/early 70s movie. Not nearly as strong a set as on Screamadelica.
2/5
Guys really named their psychedelic rock band "Primal Scream". That's like naming a death metal band "Lollipop Wizards". Loved the songs that sounded like video game [MISSION LOADING] music (Get Duffy, If They Move Kill 'Em). I appreciate when an album doesn't sound the same all the way through. There's a lot of genres and sounds here - psychedelic rock, electronica, regular pop and something I can only describe as "Thom Yorke Goblin Music".
Not at all what I expected, very interesting sound..mellow,frantic,discombobulated but fun…older boomer here always interested in new sounds…this is a keeper
It sounds like they watched Blade Runner and didn't quite understand it, but decided to make a soundtrack based on their idea of it anyway. Just lots of chill 2019 vibes from the late 90s. Best track: Kowalski
“The group does rock with a certain trashy appeal.”
Very long, felt like a mix between rock and lift music
Хорошо
This album was pleasant enough, but didn't really hold my interest. It was hard to understand why it was on this list, though perhaps there is some context that I am missing 3/5
Primal scream have some decent songs. Didn’t put any on this album though. Though star isn’t bad.
Doesn’t know what it wants to be. All over the place, couple of decent tracks but that’s it.
Just not for me. I could see someone who loves the genre liking the album because its solid all the way through. While I didn't hate it, it was a one and done for me.
Good listening while I'm working in a dark theater by myself. You can hear the influence of The Doors on the first track before the rest of the album begins to sound like the rest of the 90's. But enjoyable. Really appreciated their use of spatial audio for an immersive experience.
Not my favorite Primal Scream record but this is good. Maaaaybr a bit tiring
I can see why it made the list but I don't know how often I would revisit it.
This album is just so bland and uninteresting. Sounds very late 90s too, if anything. 3/10.
2.5/5 Trippy album, more background music. A bit too experimental for me. Favourite songs: - Star - Medication
Didn’t put me into a calm prism, too busy and not catchy. Not awful, but not a game changer.
Meh
Tämä ei oikein napannut. En saanut otetta, että mitä tässä haettiin, kovin oli taiteellisen oloista.
very experimental and divers sometimes the thought comes to mind if they thought about if they should even if they could
2 1/2
Kinda boring
Definitely not something I like. Mostly ambient noise with little differentiation between songs. Could not finish the entire thing because I found it boring.
I was really expecting some excitement based on the name of the band & the album title but this thing sucked.
2.7 - After enjoying Screamdelica, I was expecting to like this but the beats sound dated, the vocals flat and the arrangements excessively noisy.
Pretty cool! Couple weird, but very neat tracks.
This is what Thom listened to and said “this is my new bloop blorp sound” and just straight copied it but removed the songs before he released it
Engrossing and enjoyable. Apart from some interesting textures, nothing is particularly 'special' about the record - musical decisions are familiar and expected, and musicianship is adequate - leaving me a bit underwhelmed.
I only knew Screamadelica which is amazing. Glad I got to discover this one as well. It sounds very different, but I feel like that is what makes it so great for me.
Screamadelica, Vanishing Point, Echo Dek, XTRMNTR, Evil Heat are all great albums and just show how good of a band Primal Scream became at a certain moment. Re Vanishing Point: it is a bit like Darklands from the Jesus and Mary Chain - a really strong album but you automatically compare against Psychocandy. Likewise you compare Vanishing Point to Screamadelica, which is just hard to beat. So I will just give 4 stars but could (should?) have given 5.. .. ..oh no hold on: 5 after all :-)