Primal ScreamBest Primal Scream Albums Ranked

Screamadelica

pitchfork

9.0

“The meeting of unashamed, celebratory club music and rock star fandom is what gives Primal Scream's 1991 album Screamadelica its particular mood, half strutting with confidence, half yearning for transcendence. It’s a full-length manifesto not just for the brotherhood of clubbing but for the syncretic approach to rock Primal Scream were exploring.”

Xtrmntr

pitchfork

8.1

“The instruments of war have always been percussion. I'm not referring to tanks, battlerams and firearms, but musical instruments. Granted, the incessant thunder and crack of explosives is percussive, albeit erratic. The quick history lesson on the Bicentennial quarter reminds us that suckers with snares kept the beat of destruction. Tolkien's trolls thumped skin timpanis. Genghis had gongs. War ha”

Come Ahead

nme

8.0

“funk meets punk, with grenades in the trunk”

Chaosmosis

nme

8.0

“The title of Primal Scream’s 11th album might sound like something band leader Bobby Gillespie dreamt up while under the influence, but ‘Chaosmosis’ is actually a highfalutin reference to French psychotherapist Félix Guattari. His 1992 book of the same name argues human subjectivity is shaped by phenomena outside the “faculties of the soul”, specifically language, mass media and technology. Applyi”

More Light

pitchfork

7.7

“On Primal Scream’s most impassioned, lustrous, and expansive album since XTRMNTR, they’re not so much interested in toppling oppressive institutions as devising the psychic survival strategies required to withstand them.”

More Light

rollingstone

7.0

“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! Aided by producer David Holmes, More Light titrates psych rock, garage guitars and”