Primal Scream "Vanishing Point" (1997)
I really enjoyed Primal Scream's "Screamadelica" album where they
combined rock sounds, dance sounds, and the in between 'baggy' sound.
As much as I enjoy musical variety, I felt that some of the electronic
tracks didn't really sit along the more guitar-based songs, possibly
it's because it was a fairly new direction for the band and they hadn't
quite worked out how to properly integrate everything. Colour me
pleased then that this album still mixes its sounds but seems to have
found more of a balance across the album.
The album is named after a film of the same name that the band loved.
They felt that the film's score was a bit too much like hippy music for a
film about speed-jacked cross-country car antics and sought to
reimagine this at least for the track "Kowalski" (the main character).
The album also manages to work in the trip-hoppy jazz of "Get Duffy", the
rock sound of "Medication", the Krautrock of "Stuka", a slightly
dance-infused cover of Motörhead's eponymous track, and the
60s-spy-music-evolving-into jazzy-trip-hop-voyage of penultimate track "Trainspotting".
Excellent album, liking what I'm hearing and should probably check out
at least the album between "Screamadelica" and "Vanishing Point" some
time.
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