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Beautiful Future | 
| Artist: Primal Scream
Label: B-Unique Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 9063
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5051442923728
ASIN: B001B0DUWS
Release Date: July 21, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Beautiful Future | | • | Can't Go Back | | • | Uptown | | • | The Glory Of Love | | • | Suicide Bomb | | • | Zombie Man | | • | Beautiful Summer | | • | I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt) | | • | Over Over | | • | Necro Kex Blues | | • | The Glory Of Love |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
iBeautiful Future/i--a hopelessly optimistic moniker for their ninth album, no matter which way you approach it, since Primal Scream are almost universally accepted to have strutted past their zenith around the same time they helpfully mislaid their vowels (on 2000's unrelentingly anarchic iXtrmntr/i). To claim any future, especially after the all-too-brief successes of 2006's turgid iRiot City Blues/i, let alone a handsome one is foolhardy to say the least. But, you see, they're actually being cuttingly sarcastic, or so we ascertain from Bobby Gillespie's ham-fisted sloganeering on the title track's tirade against modern ills ("you live by the sword, you die by the sword, you're only free to buy things you can't afford", etc.). If anything in particular is exposed as a spent force here it is he and his pen, sense disregarded to the point of parody, words drifting like flotsam amid the band's systematic attempts to reinvent themselves. The small miracle is that they just about manage. "Beautiful Future" leads into the album with a curious and eventually overwhelming infectiousness, gleaming like CSS delivering a Shirelles pastiche complete with cheesy bell-ringing and an effeminate vocal delivery that almost clouds over the lyrical content. "I Love to Hurt (You Love to Be Hurt)" actually features CSS's Lovefoxx as this album's Kate Moss and holds its own with some minimalist malevolence. As an album it jerks and it stumbles, lacking a definitive identity, but it at least ensures they'll live to see another day. A future of some sort is assured. i--James Berry/i
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Thankfully back on track. The Scream rediscover their form... July 22, 2008
Abacus Riley (Rugeley, UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Following 2006's lamentable `Riot City Blues`, it's a joy to hear Primal Scream take yet another, more virtuous U-turn on `Beautiful Future`.
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br /Gone are the retro-rock posturing and lyrical laziness that hampered their previous record and in with the trademark electronics and powering guitars, not heard since their underrated "Evil Heat" album of 2002.
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br /Although still not the Primal Scream turned up to 11 they gave us on `Xtrmntr', `Beautiful Future' is certainly a step in the right direction. The brooding paranoia on `Uptown', `Suicide Bomb' and `Beautiful Summer' rank as some of their best efforts yet while lead single, `Can't Go Back' comes on like the shiny cousin of `Accelerator`.
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br /This time round however, the albums finest moments lay with it's collaborators.
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br /Lovefoxxx adds a haunting vocal to the chilling `I Love To Hurt (You Love To Be Hurt)' which also marks the welcome return of Jagz Kooner on electronics. This is followed by Bobby and folk star Linda Thompson dueting on `Over Over' - a track which could have easily been lifted from `Screamadelica'.
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br /Lined-up against their previous work, it sits best next to 1998's `Vanishing Point'. An album that also came at a time when Primal Scream had been all but written off after the critical shrug of the shoulders that was `Give Out But Don't Give Up'.
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br /With a resilience that holds no bars, you can't help but think if nuclear fall-out were to happen tomorrow all that would remain would be cockroaches and Primal Scream.
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br /So...all is forgiven. Bring on album number ten.
Which Primal Scream? August 12, 2008
G. M. Dobb (Bicester)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK so there are two Primal Screams. The Scream that did XTRMNTR and EVIL HEAT, and the band that produced RIOT CITY BLUES. Personally I love RCB, but not everyone does. So what you need to know is that IMHO Beautiful Future is more like RCB than the other two. So if you didn't like RCB then I'd recommend you steer clear of this one as well.
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br /Although I love this album, I'm not too sure about the Fleetwood Mac cover. Also, is it just me or is Zombie Man a rip-off of Ringo's Back Off Boogaloo?
Better than XTRMNTR - The Screams best album yet July 9, 2008
D. McDevitt
3 out of 16 found this review helpful
Every track on this album is an anthem, Gillespie and co have come out with the goods on this record and it shows. Riot City Blues showed a different tune to the band but now they have gone back to their original style from the classic XTRMNTR album, yet this one is better. Classic scream. 10/10.
Based only on the single 'Can't Go Back' and the free download July 15, 2008
Mandy Moore (Bristol)
2 out of 12 found this review helpful
I was a massive fan of Xtrmntr or Evil Heat then you will love the single and if the rest of the album is like this, then we will all be very happy. Personally I did not like the riot city blues album, too cheesy, so this is a return to form for me. The download track from the album I was sent after I put myself on the Primal Scream mailing list also from this album was great too in a similar style. Bring on July 22nd!!
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What An Album ! July 26, 2008
P. Anderson (uk)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A STUNNER.
br /love the versions of Urban Guerilla and Over and Over !!!
br /This is a Classic In the making.
br /If you like the primals from Start to Now - Enjoy !
br /Cant wait to see them play.
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br /ps. Bobby G. Thought the wake were great in their day !
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