How do they keep being so flipping good all the time! Bobby hisses and croons and shouts on these tracks, in places evoking Peggy Lee and Nick Cave, in others Joe Strummer and Iggy Pop. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. I don't often get into buying stuff by older bands, even though I'm from the 80s/90s and -that- summer of standing round in fields - there's too much good new stuff coming out every month, but this sits quite happily alongside tunes in my collection that came out last week. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2019. More Light flaunts all of the benefits of their recharging. Armchair critics can rag on Riot City Blues or Beautiful Future all they want, but they are sadly mistaken. cd included in a plastic slip case, nothing fancy but nothing needed i guess. Listen to this Album playlist featuring all the songs of Primal Scream's More Light. It's somewhere between riot city blues and Give out but don't give up in style. In the 90's Primal Scream were just untouchable, releasing groundbreaking album after another, but then the quality started to dip, perhaps the band had burned themselves out, or they'd settled down to raise families & there priorities had changed. The Primals remain one of the best UK rock bands around...consistent, inventive, political, angry, sexy...their work is never boring, never bland. Why Mani would want to go back to the Stoses I don't know. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 25, 2013. The art came later, after they halted their ascendency via the Stones-aping Give Out But Don't Give Up, a move that in retrospect seems to be an important final foundation within the construction of Primal Scream but at the time seemed odd, halting, flying in the face of Cool Britannia. Bobby Gillespie and crew rubbed shoulders with the fellow Creation labelmates Oasis but Primal Scream never belonged to Brit-pop; they dropped out and tuned in, dabbling with radical politics, dub, and free jazz, pursuing that path until they once again acted like a rock band on Riot City Blues, an album, like Give Out, that seems like a waystation that, along with 2008's rangier Beautiful Future, feels like a necessary detour for the group to refuel. Bobby hisses and croons and shouts on these tracks, in places evoking Peggy Lee and Nick Cave, in others Joe Strummer and Iggy Pop. To enjoy Prime Music, go to Your Music Library and transfer your account to Amazon.com (US). The album features guest appearances from Robert Plant, Kevin Shields, The Pop Group's Mark Stewart and Jason Faulkner. There are many great moments, opener 2013 sounds like mid-seventies Hawkwind complete with Nik Turner-style sax blasts, which is never a bad thing. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Additional taxes may apply. Primal Scream is about forever changing. Yep, in my opinion this is their best album since 'Vanishing Point'. It is the first Primal Scream album after the departure of bassist Mani. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. INstantly likeable but lacking any new classics in the vein of "rocks off". To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. What a shame. Awesome Music .... never get tired of listening to this CD. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2013 CD release of More Light on Discogs. Official Primal Scream website with music, tour dates, videos, news and more. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Overall the album flows really well and David Holmes has done a great production job. I could not find enough differences between CD and vinyl waveforms, which might mean that they just crammed CD master to LP. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2014. It stands as an album on its own, will probably still be listening to it in 20 years time, like Screamadelica. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. It references influential The Gun Club singer Jeffrey Lee Piercewith a take … Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. It's challenging and complex, working with a recipe of early House, Funkadelic, CAN, The Stooges, The Beatles and The Pretty Things (the psychedelia), and The Stones. More Light is the tenth studio album by Scottish band Primal Scream, released on 13 May 2013. Primal Scream never shy away from darkness here, either in their lyrics or music, but More Light percolates with bright, incessant inventiveness, as if they are gripped by the tantalizing possibilities of their creations, and have yet to give up on the future, despite all the bleakness that surrounds them. There's a problem loading this menu right now. This one the equal to those two vastly underrated masterpieces and every bit as great, but vastly different. By the time you get to the last few bars of It's Alright, It's Ok you feel like you've been on a proper musical journey, just like all the best albums. Interesting album, some great tunes, and it's pretty much a journey from start to finish. The opening track 2013 has some powerfully scorching lyrics, challenging fake protest and creeping apathy, punctuated with a brassy horn riff stolen from a Herp Albert album. Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2013. Pressing is fine (heavy vinyl, no hiss, no clicks and pops), but dynamics is really sub par. Listen to songs of More Light in this playlist. CD actually does its job better, as there are audible issues with high frequencies on LP. More Light is a welcome shock to the ears ... extreme music for extreme urgent times, zooming in out of the sun like a fighter jet barrel-rolling on overdrive, engines screaming, and from the cockpit, a gloved wave and smile from a pilot who’s sonically fueled Primal Scream filled headphones cause him to punch into hyperdrive and vanish on a storm of dust, flying at treetop level to parts unknown. Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2014. It wasn't always this way, not at the start, when they were part of the delicate, brittle C86 scene, nor was it true when they exploded in a brilliant blast of acid house on Screamadelica. More Light was written by Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes and produced by David Holmes. Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2013. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 27, 2013. Primal Scream never shy away from darkness here, either in their lyrics or music, but More Light percolates with bright, incessant inventiveness, as if they are gripped by the tantalizing possibilities of their creations, and have yet to give up on the future, despite all the bleakness that surrounds them. More Light feels like a Dystopian science fiction novel by JG Ballard set to a sleazy future film score. More Light, 2xLP, Album + CD, Album, SCRMLP003, My Top Albums of 2013 (industrial and non-industrial). It is one of those odd Primal Scream albums where they pull it all together -- roping in the hard rock, free jazz, club beats, flowery psychedelia, the worship of the Stooges, and a devotion to avant-garde cinema -- building upon the past in an attempt to get closer to the future. Ever since the abovementioned they've been fairly consistently good. Maybe it's a losing game -- as the years slip by, situationist politics, avant-garde art, and psychedelic pop all fade from popular consciousness -- but the brilliant thing about More Light is how it suggests that the struggle itself is empowering. Those were two awesome albums. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 7, 2013. More Light, the band's first album five years, features 13 new songs including the single '2013'. More Light feels like a Dystopian science fiction novel by JG Ballard set to a sleazy future film score. There isn't a bad track on this LP. One of the best Scream albums since XTMNTR. A powerful, aggressive, poetic album. Side Man is a stand out at the minute for me, but the standard right across the whole thing is typically high. With the core ‘XTRMNTR’ team – the Scream, Shields, producer David Holmes – ‘More Light’, the Scream’s 10th album and first in five years, lives up to its bilious billing. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2013, 11th studio album since 1987 from these legends of British rock--catchy & hypnotic Brit-poppy, Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2016, Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2013, This album set my mind ablaze with all sorts of connective muses:), Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2013. Primal Scream always refracted the past through the prism of the present, turning hero worship into something resembling high art. Their own history is not exempt from examination: they flirt with the aggro aggression of XTRMNTR and Screamadelica's "Movin' on Up" is explicitly quoted on the closer, "It's Alright, It's OK." That tune is placed at the end of the album, concluding the album on a bit of a triumphant note, a tone that's rather appropriate for More Light. If you like Primal Scream, don't hesitate. I prefer the harder edged stuff to the Memphis type material, and must praise Bobby for retaining a political interest when all the old Weller's sold out so long ago, a subject touched upon on 2013. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Sold by Amazon.com Services LLC. And, it grows on you - the more you listen the more you'll like it. Good psychedelic (ish) rock album. Occasionally, that darkness creeps into view -- "Elimination Blues," with vocals from Robert Plant, … If you're new to them, this is a very accessible album to start with. Vinyl package is pretty good, sounds great. Given the loss of Mani to the Stone Roses, I'm pleased they have kicked on and produced an album with a wonderful bass groove and swing. It sets the tone for this record, which seems to hold a cracked mirror to society, reporting back apocalyptic visions and broadcasting warnings. The single "It's Alright, It's OK" received airplay on national stations including BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 6 Music and Absolute Radio and on music channel MTV Rocks, whilst it has also been played on a number of smaller stations including 106.9FM WHCR and Kingstown Radio. I think my favorite is Relativity ("You're broken like your family/I guess you must be lonely..."). More Light is a welcome shock to the ears ... extreme music for extreme … Feel good rocking tunes in the main. I can't give this album five stars simply because it's relatively new and you've got to give stuff time, and then you need to leave some room for Blonde on Blonde and Berlin and The Scream's own Vanishing Point and other classics, but really it is v. Good. Occasionally, that darkness creeps into view -- "Elimination Blues," with vocals from Robert Plant, churns its groove until there seems to be no escape; "Relativity" reaches a cacophonous crescendo, never slipping back to a comfort zone -- but what sticks with More Light is that sense of adventure, how it wrestles with the future by using the rules of the past.