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Title: Contender for Most Over-rated album of 2000 ?
Review: The British music press have been fawning over Primal Scream and their latest album since the release of Xtrmntr early this year. In their furious desire to embrace a band 'that matters' they have grabbed on to the incoherent and hypocritical adolescent rantings of Bobby Gillespie and co. The first four tracks on this album are of top quality, if somewhat derivative of the Stooges and Velvet Undergound circa White Light/White Heat. They also owe a lot to Mani's exquisite driving basslines, honed in the early 90s with the Stone Roses. After that however, it falters badly. A terrible attempt at white-boy rap with 'Pills';a jazz-rock fusion which Soft Machine would have been ashamed of; a remix of a track already on the album; and the inclusion of a MBV remixed track which had already been released a year ago. Album of the year? I really don't think so.
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