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~ Primal Scream
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  • Audio CD (15 Jan 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Creation
  • ASIN: B000024SXR
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
After 1994's Give Out But Don't Give Up, many critics wrote off Primal Scream as a drug-addled nostalgics, retreading lame rock clichés. Vanishing Point, while not a return to the sun-addled acid house fusion of Screamadelica was another voyage into the Scream's expansive mindscape. This time, however, the trip was bad. "Kowalski" heralded the album like a dark portent. Bobby Gillespie whispers bitter nothings over a distorted Krautrock groove that effortlessly melds Primal Scream's melting pot of influences--The Stooges, CanCan and Sun Ra. Vanishing Point seems propelled by demons, with the metallic funk of "If They Move, Kill 'Em" and "Stuka" providing dirty highlights--the latter threatening "If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned / some of my friends are gonna die young". It's not as essential as Screamadelica, but Vanishing Point finds Primal Scream at a terrifying and compelling depth. --Louis Pattison

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After fully exploring their EXILE-era Stones fetish on GIVEOUT BUT DON'T GIVE IN, Primal Scream's fourth album, VANISHING POINT, picks up where 1991's epochal SCREAMADELICA left off. Once more, our heroes are on a quest to marry their post-Madchester garage groove to a perversely diverse electronic soundscape. On "Kowalski", multiple bass lines rumble downthe highway alongside Can-like tribal percussion, as Bobby Gillespie whispers non-sequitirs about a disappeared race-car driver. On "Star", a discourse on the modern cult of personality is bathed in wind-swept ambient pulses and Augustus Pablo's melodica, and punctuated by The Memphis Horns.
Butthe greatest of Primal Scream's gains come on the instrumental pieces. "If They Move, Kill 'Em" rocks on the shoulders of a wah-wah guitar and a thumping hip-hop beat, while an acid-house bass line, feisty brass section and sitar send a myriad of culturally diverse chills up the listener's spine. Throughout, VANISHING POINT is full of minor-but-miraculous sonic asides that make it a ride worth taking, as close to a perfect electronica-rock marriage as anyone's yet achieved.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The last beautiful soul hero on this planet..., 29 Jul 2000
Time after time Screamadelica is ranked as one of THE albums of all time, but personally Vanishing Point ranks higher than it anyday...Dub beats, fantastic samples, dirty bass and gritty guitar all add to Bobby's fantastic 'stuff you' vocals...I don't like to compare bands, but if you like Death in Vegas...you'll love this. Classic.
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5.0 out of 5 stars 1997's classic return to form..., 29 April 2006
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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The addition of former Stone Rose Mani to the line-up certainly invigorated Primal Scream, as did Martin Duffy's contribution to The Charlatans' 'Tellin'Stories.' The mis-fire that was 'Give Out But Don't Give Up' (territory they have mysteriously returned to on new LP 'Riot City Blues')was banished by 'Vanishing Point', an LP that came on the back of their Irvine Welsh/On-U-Sound single for Euro-96 (prediciting the dub-territory of 'Echo Dek') and 'Trainspotting' for the soundtrack of the classy adaptation of Welsh's classic debut novel.

Initial single 'Kowalski' was an odd choice to return with - blending industrial dub (recalling the Adrian Sherwood-produced 'Twitch' by Ministry), the gothic, Krautrock & samples from the classic 1971 road movie 'Vanishing Point' (up there with 'Two Lane Blacktop', 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia' & 'Punishment Park'). One of their greatest moments and even better in its live incarnation, which features a more animated Bobby Gillespie and a My Bloody Valentine-style loop of euphoric-sound. Second single 'Star' featured the late Augustus Pablo and applied dub to the Stones-territory of earlier songs like 'You're Just Too Dark to Care' and 'Cry Myself Blind.' It does appear to believe that Rosa Parks was dead - in 1997?

The third single and opening track 'Burning Wheel' is one of my favourite Primal Scream songs, despite the fact its opening appears to have been pilfered from Can's 'Future Days'! A great production that veers from channel-to-channel, featuring some wild organ from former Felt-keyboardist Martin Duffy - in line with the great 'Get Duffy' & his replacement work for the late Rob Collins in the Charlatans. The first half of the album goes out strongly with 'Out of the Void', which is a darker relative of their 'Screamadelica'-era, fitting with their later allusions to Joy Division, PIL and The Pop Group.

'Stuka' appears to reflect Gillespie & co's two decades too late flirtation with WWII imagery (Throbbing Gristle, Siouxsie Sioux, Joy Division & Keith Moon all there first!), though I think this was put down to Andrew Innes then obssession with 'The World at War'! Another hypnotic blend of dub, electronica and psychedelia, fitting well alongside the Chemical Brothers' best moment 'The Private Psychedelic Reel', the great Unkle-remix of The Verve's 'Bittersweet Symphony' & Liam Howlett's remix of Method Man's 'Release Yo'Self.' 'Medication' gets right the Faces/Stones-thing they were doing on the previous LP (only 'Rocks' could be argued to have been a success)- though I'm quite intrigued by its current incarnation that is slower & recycles the 'Keep On Keepin'On'-riff from Joy Division's 'Interzone.' The cover of Motorhead meanwhile, is the sole duff moment and an obvious b-side - I'm sure Lemmy was mortified!

The album goes out strongly with the epic soundtrack piece 'Trainspotting' which sounds like it fuses 'Screamadlica' with dub and John Barry and the bleak 'Long Life' - which feels like a 90s-relative of 'Closer'-Joy Division and sounds like a precursor of 2000's 'Keep Your Dreams' (which was essentially Joy Division do 'Higher Than the Sun' with title from Suicide!). 'Vanishing Point' has dated well and alongside 'Screamadelica' and 'Xtrmntr' stand as their key albums. It was certainly one of the highlights of the late 90s alongside Royal Trux's 'Accelerator', Spiritualized's 'Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space', Screaming Trees' 'Dust', Neutral Milk Hotel's 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea', The Flaming Lips' 'Zaireeka', Meat Beat Manifesto's 'Subliminal Sandwich', Ghostface Killah's 'Ironman' & baader meinhof's eponymous LP. Pity 'Riot City Blues', 'When the Bomb Drops', is otherwise miles apart from it...
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2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Worth another go....., 20 Jul 2005
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I have far too many albums which I have bought over the years, played once and if they don't grab me over another couple of spins I give up. My collection is full of them.

To give these albums another chance, I have started my Album of the Week campaign. I come home from work every night, Monday to Friday and play the selected album from start to finish. If still continues to disappoint, back in the cupboard it goes.

I bought this shortly after it's release in 1997 and played it few times, wasn't keen and it's been gathering dust ever since. Well it's Wednesday today and it's growing on me, Kowalski always was great as is Star and Burning Wheel. For me though, the best track is Trainspotting with it's blissed out bass and haunting drums. Give it a go, Sreamadelica it ain't, but still worth another chance......

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