★★★★★
Once the first decade of our new millennium has been firmly canonized, it may be remembered as the decade of urgency. In stark contrast to the more lackadaisical 90s - with it's slacker generation and stable economy - the 2000's was the period where everything started happening . We're under threat of a terrorist attack . The economy might take another nosedive . All music is free . A gunman might burst into your workplace and murder everyone . You can communicate with anyone on the planet ...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-02-13
★★★★★
July 15, 2013
The first track is "2013," and given that we weren't sure he'd make it out of the Nineties, it's perfect that formerly drug-gobbling head Screamer Bobby Gillespie has to remind himself of the year. It takes him nine minutes to get it all out, and he has to rope in My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields to help. Genius...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-07-16
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentTweetShare Less is More Primal Scream is celebrating thirty years as a band, with most of those years spent flying just under the radar. Over that time, members have come and gone, leaving founding member and vocalist Bobby Gillespie the one enduring feature of the band. Even their sound has morphed over the decades, pushing the boundaries of Brit-rock towards indie, dance, psychedelic and whatever else caught their ears...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-06-22
★★★★★
Bobby & co run the gamut from cool to cringe on their 10th LP... Picking holes in Primal Scream is traditionally one of life's less onerous tasks. There goes Bobby G, hymning revolution while sounding like a man who would struggle to overthrow a parking fine. On top of the de trop sloganeering there's the borrowed poses, recycled rock clichés, the hipper-than-thou name-dropping. More Light is not short of ammunition for those inclined to mock...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-06-21
★★★★★
Primal Scream albums are--to quote Forrest Gump--like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get. The group's 10th album, More Light, comes five years after its confusing predecessor, Beautiful Future, and it follows up the group touring its seminal album, 1991's Screamadelica. Produced by critically acclaimed DJ and soundtrack stalwart David Holmes, More Light has an ear-catching list of collaborators: Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant ("Elimination Blues"), My Bloody Valentine's...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2013-06-18
★★★★★
www.ignition.co.uk
BY FRED MILLS
O, Bobby Gillespie, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways... Just as Lulu once gushed (in To Sir With Love) about how on-screen mentor Sidney Poitier had taken her "from crayons to perfume," Gillespie has, over his quarter-century tenure as frontman for Primal Scream, taken us from the jangle to the groove, freeing both our minds and our asses in the process...
- blurtonline.com
2013-06-19
★★★★★
Sometimes it's frustrating to be a fan of Primal Scream, mainly because there's no telling what version of the band is going to show up on a given album. When the Scottish band sticks to electronica (1991's drug-fueled opus Screamadelica, 1997's despondent masterpiece Vanishing Point), nihilistic synth-punk (2000's XTRMNTR) or fractured dance (2002's Evil Heat), chances are good for a solid record...
- www.avclub.com
2013-06-18
★★★★★
Primal Scream More LightBy Cam LindsayFew contemporary bands can challenge Primal Scream for their ability to revolutionize music, knocking out two era-defining classic albums and, well, consuming enough drugs to kill a small nation. The fact that they've been around for 30 years just makes it all the more impressive. For their tenth LP, Bobby Gillespie and the gang have created yet another release that sounds like no other in their catalogue...
- exclaim.ca
2013-06-19
★★★★★
Primal Scream may not be the most important or influential band in music, but much like Forrest Gump, history will show that they were present for a lot. In the '80s the group contributed the B-side "Velocity Girl" to NME's now legendary C86 cassette compilation. A collection that in the eyes of history has come to define the mid-80s UK indie pop scene. The following decade began with Primal Scream's Screamadelica , the band's third full-length, released in the fall of 1991...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-06-18
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