Primal Scream - XTRMNTR

By Andy Reilly

The threat of Y2K may not have materialised, but people were still angry and confused on the streets of Britain. This was an uneasy time, with the hope and expectations of a better life in the new millennium being trashed by the realisation that nothing much had changed.A decade prior to this, Primal Scream captured the optimism and mood of the youth in the UK with Screamadelica. At the beginning of the new millennium, the same core group but with a varied line-up of collaborators and well-wishers helped to create an era defining record of a similar stature but in totally different tone and mood. This was an album that was taking to the streets as much as the people who were listening to it.XTRMNTR proved that Primal Scream had an eye for social commentary and for observing and capturing the mood around them. For once, the band slipped off the shackles of their chemical intake and reached into the political and social upbringing that peppered the upbringing of frontman Bobby Gillespie. To the un-initiated or unsuspecting listener, the chaos and cacophony of sound may have been distracting and unsettling, but this record encapsulated the most concise or cohesive the group has ever been.Proving to be more of a collective unit, as opposed to the traditional rock and roll group that they have been pigeonholed as, XTRMNTR was the sound of Primal Scream laying waste to the state around them as well as their own mythology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511502312
• ISBN13: 9781511502313
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.1" x 6.0"