Primal Scream - Beautiful Future

Reviews of Beautiful Future

Rating Summary
n/a by www.guardian.co.uk Its hedonistic groove carries everything before it, and reminds you that 'rock'n'roll' doesn't just signify a sound (and fury), it signifies an attitude towards risk taking. Read more
n/a by NME A fine mix of fantasy and reality, made by a band who never run out of ideas, sung by a singer too smart to fall apart and too excited by rocknroll to stop being stupid. Read more
n/a by Pitchfork Media If this attempted reconciliation produces moments of both elation and frustration, well, the band's erratic track record gives us no real reason to expect otherwise. Read more
n/a by www.drownedinsound.com Well, there is a lack of faults, sure, but theres not a lot that grabs hard. Read more
n/a by www.uncut.co.uk Its too blunt, messy and reverent to be up there with their best, but you hope that it also serves a secondary function: to clear the decks for one last magnificent tilt at rock deification on album number ten. Read more
n/a by uk.launch.yahoo.com While eight years ago Primal Scream embraced a hard edge that blew our faces off, this limp electro-pop doesn't stand up against the likes of The Knife, who infuse their work with both an inventiveness and emotion that's sorely lacking here. Read more
n/a by www.nowtoronto.com Gillespie will definitely need it [a new Mamma Mia-loving audience] once long-time-Primals fans hear all the twee synth-tweaked frivolity and snappy handclaps where the sleazy, distorted rock n roll jams shouldve been. Read more
n/a by www.sputnikmusic.com This is just lazily done and disappointing considering its been marketed very well to appear mysterious. Read more
n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com Yttling and Epworth have succeeded in making the Scream enjoyable and vital again, hardly a sure thing after the embarrassment of Riot City Blues. Read more