Product Description

Eighth album from Primal Scream and the follow up to their 2000 release 'Xtrmntr'. 'Evil Heat' features contributions from Kevin Shields, Robert Plant, Andy Weatherall, Jim Reid and Jagz Kooner. A head-on collision of experimental psychedelic, blues, punk and rock 'n' roll. Includes the single 'Miss Lucifer', and 'City' a reworking of the David Holmes track'Sick City'.

Track Listing

1. Deep Hit Of Morning Sun
2. Miss Lucifer
3. Autobahn 66
4. Detroit
5. Rise
6. The Lord Is My Shotgun
7. City
8. Some Velvet Morning
9. Skull X
10. A Scanner Darkly
11. Space Blues Number 2

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22988 in Music
• Released on: 2002-08-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
It may sound like a soundclash conceived by graphic designers in Hoxton, but Primal Scream's Evil Heat is oddly fantastic. The plot this time is to streamline the massive sounds of 2000's superb Xtrmntr, and to combine two currently potent genres: raw, sexually charged electro and raw, sexually charged rock'n'roll. The key, as ever with Primal Scream, is their collaborators. Hence old mucker Andy Weatherall returns to the fold and turns "Autobahn 66" into a beautiful motorik meditation that simultaneously recalls their own Screamadelicaand the autobahn fantasies of Krautrockers Neu!. Meanwhile, My Bloody Valentine's genius leader Kevin Shields feeds most of the other tracks through his disorientation and distortion effects deck, so that even the most rudimentary New York punkers like "Skull X" and "City" sound originally twisted rather than mere homages.

In the midst of it all there's Gillespie, posing like fury, yelping the received wisdom of a thousand dirty rock biogs, far more camp than he can possibly conceive. But Evil Heat, perhaps accidentally, captures the paradox at the heart of truly great rock'n'roll: that the old myths and ideas can still be reinvented, sometimes as comedy, sometimes as revolution, sometimes as both simultaneously.--John Mulvey

Customer Reviews

Sleazy Synths
The ambient, haunting opening track `Deep Hit of Morning Sun' is packed with buzzes and crackles, building tension for Primal Scream to kick in with the Electronica Rock they are now renowned for. That is exactly what happens when the black dancefloor anthem `Miss Lucifer' bursts out.

It is a curious and particular formula that was used in the previous album but still works. Except this time more punk has trickled into the beats and the guitar. The chanting, loose vocals and the chainsaw guitars that have a painfully sharp edge that permanently compete for attention shows this work has taken much influence from punk rock groups of the 70s.

A thin boundary lay in Primal Screams' work: is it pretentious or not? `Some Velvet Morning' is the case in question, where Kate Moss and her extremely airy vocals breeze over the synths and rumbles and distant crunches, whilst the question buzzes round your head.

It is laced with delicate and diverse sounds that make the overall sound very layered, whilst the riffs are almost 12 bar blues or classic rock n roll, except - like bands such as Add N to X - the riff is rarely played on what sounds like a guitar. Rock is hidden behind the sounds of dance - it is predominantly Iggy and The Stooges playing with robots.

Not as good as XTMNTR
While this album is very, very good I was slightly disappointed it astheir two albums previous had been total masterpieces. Some of the songsappear to almost dumbdowned pastiches of previous glories. Several of thesongs are breathtaking and on the whole Evil Heat is an essentialpurchase. Here's hoping their next effort is as good as XTMNTR!

No Civil Disobedience (This Time)
Not as huge a leap forward as 'XTRMNTR'. After running full throttle along the musical highway with the previous album 'Evil Heat' is pretty much a smoother, more playful stop-and-have-a-look-around and is definitely worth having in your collection. The only real faults I guess were that the album's criminally short and that also that it lacked the same balls-out abrasive impact of its predecessor. Musically the punky bits are punkier and the dancy bits are dancier. My personal highlights are 'Some Velvet Morning' which manages to be quite a sexy halfway point and also the Mike Oldfield-esque 'A Scanner Darkly'. All in all a good album but I'm hoping it's just a stop-gap before the band do something really mind-blowing again... Nice cover art as well.