Latest Release
- 8 NOV 2024
- 16 Songs
- Come Ahead · 2024
- Screamadelica · 1990
- Screamadelica · 1991
- Give Out But Don't Give Up (Deluxe Version) · 1994
- Come Ahead · 2024
- Maximum Rock 'n' Roll: The Singles (Remastered) · 2019
- Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise · 2016
- Come Ahead · 2024
- Come Ahead · 2024
- Come Ahead · 2024
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Artist Playlists
- Come together and keep movin' on up.
- The groove merchants explore languid, psychedelic beats.
- Where synth-pop, psychedelic jangle and rock ‘n' roll meet.
- Alt-rock, psychedelia and dance music pushed to maniacal edges.
Live Albums
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- The singer-songwriter explains her dislike of genres.
- At home with the Primal Scream singer.
- Best rock songs from the ‘80s.
About Primal Scream
Like superheroes who can transform themselves into any shape at will, Primal Scream have endured as a UK rock institution precisely because they’ve refused to settle into one. Since he established the group in Glasgow in 1982, frontman Bobby Gillespie has led Primal Scream through countless different lineups and musical permutations: wistful indie-pop outfit, leather-clad proto-punks, psychedelic dub crew, anarchist industrial armada, Rolling Stones revivalists, hedonistic rave ambassadors. The latter guise is their most widely recognised thanks to 1991’s epochal Screamadelica, a pioneering fusion of ’60s classic rock and ’90s acid house that saw the group subject themselves to the knob-tweaking whims of DJ Andrew Weatherhall and Alex Patterson of The Orb. But while that Mercury Prize-winning record marked their first major success, Primal Scream refused to repeat the formula, leading listeners instead on a roller-coaster ride that’s included the Sticky Fingers soul of 1994’s Give Out But Don’t Give Up, the nocturnal electro-noir of 1997’s Vanishing Point, the politicised techno-punk of 2000’s XTRMNTR and the Middle Eastern exotica of 2013’s latter-day triumph More Light. But while Gillespie perennially exudes the sunglasses-at-night cool of someone eager to quiz you on your favourite Stooges and Can deep cuts, his duets with Sky Ferreira and Haim on 2016’s Chaosmosis remind us that behind all of Primal Scream’s genre-bounding experimentation is a mass-appealing pop sensibility that allows the group to sound both timeless and of the moment.
- ORIGIN
- Glasgow, Scotland
- FORMED
- 1982
- GENRE
- Alternative