Primal Scream - Screamadelica
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Artist: Primal ScreamEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-10-08
Music Label: Sire / London/Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Movin' On Up
- Slip Inside This House
- Don't Fight It, Feel It
- Higher Than The Sun
- Inner Flight
- Come Together
- Loaded
- Damaged
- I'm Comin' Down
- Higher Than The Sun (A Dub Symphony In Two Parts)
- Shine Like Stars
Free Music Notes for Screamadelica
Free Music Review: Impressive blend of styles
Hit: 4 Stars
This was one of the best albums of 1991, at least as rated by the critics. The music certainly represents a breathtaking array of influences, styles and textures that is well enough integrated for a cohesive musical statement.
Movin' On Up is a soulful slab of rock with lovely female vocals, whilst the next two are psychedelic trance-dance pieces. Slip Inside This House being more straight-forward tribal dance whilst Don't Fight It Feel It is a trippy, trancey number with quirky burbling synths.
Higher Than The Sun is a slower number with atmospheric soundscapes whilst Inner Flight is even slower and more ambient with some dreamy vocals. Come Together is a mid tempo rhythmic track built around a male vocal speech followed later by oneiric female vocals.
The tribal rhythms reappear on the long track Loaded with its mildly amusing spoken intro, appealing melody line, voice samples and bursts of sound. A drastic change in sound and tempo comes with the gentle ballad Damaged, firmly in the rock tradition with great guitars and sensitive piano.
The next one, I'm Coming Down, is even slower and more laid-back with mournful sax, an apt description of the process named in the title. The penultimate track, Higher Than The Sun: A Dub Symphony, contains more atmospheric sounds and spacious vocals than the earlier version, and the album concludes with Shine Like Stars, a shimmering slow psychedelic number.
It's very difficult not to compare this album with psychedelic masterpieces from the past, like Love's Forever Changes, the 1960s psychedelia of the Stones, Beatles, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland. Fans of Screamadelica should definitely also investigate the work of the ambient tribal house UK band Astralasia.
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A watershed '90s release, Screamadelica was the most convincing marriage of overground rock and underground dance music yet. With one foot in Beggars Banquet-era Stones (the gospel-rock "Movin' on Up") and the other in the trippy soundscapes of rave culture (the Orb-produced "Higher Than the Sun"), Primal Scream caught the mind-blown euphoria of Ecstacy better than anyone. Frontman Bobby Gillespie had no singing voice to speak of, but his vision of cosmic hedonism made him a drugged-out Pied Piper for the acid tribes. From the incantatory anthems "Loaded" and "Come Together" to the sinister rendering of the 13th Floor Elevators' "Slip Inside This House," Screamadelica was a modern psych classic. --Barney HoskynsAlternative Rock Music CDs
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