Tracks 12-18 on DVD.
On their new album, Evil Heat, Primal Scream set out to streamline the massive sound of 2000's superb Xtrmntr and to combine raw, sexually charged electro with raw, sexually charged rock & roll. That they succeed has much to do with the band's collaborators. Andy Weatherall returns to the fold and transforms "Autobahn 66" into a beautiful meditation that recalls Primal Scream's earlier Screamadelica and 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 punk tracks ("Skull X," "City") sound original. In the midst of it all, there's Bobbie Gillespie, posing furiously. But Evil Heat, perhaps accidentally, captures the paradox at the heart of great rock & roll: that the old ideas can be reinvented, sometimes as comedy, sometimes as revolution, and sometimes as both. --John Mulvey
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