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Beautiful Future
by Primal Scream
The latest album from the alt rock group from Scotland was produced in part by Bjorn Yttling.
| LABEL: |
Warner Bros/Wea |
| RELEASE DATE: |
21 July 2008 |
| DISCS: |
1 disc |
| GENRE(S): |
Rock, Alternative |
NOTES: Original UK release 21 Jul 2008. Currently available as an import only in the U.S.

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Observer Music Monthly
Its hedonistic groove carries everything before it, and reminds you that 'rock'n'roll' doesn't just signify a sound (and fury), it signifies an attitude towards risk taking.

80
New Musical Express
A fine mix of fantasy and reality, made by a band who never run out of ideas, sung by a singer too smart to fall apart and too excited by rock’n’roll to stop being stupid.

78
cokemachineglow
Yttling and Epworth have succeeded in making the Scream enjoyable and vital again, hardly a sure thing after the embarrassment of "Riot City Blues."

70
Spin
Though singer Bobby Gillespie's lyrics are still rife with anti-establishment paranoia, songs such as 'The Glory of Love' and the title track are colorful, catchy, and informed by a cautious optimism born of hard-earned perspective and a surprising maturity.

70
Pitchfork
If this attempted reconciliation produces moments of both elation and frustration, well, the band's erratic track record gives us no real reason to expect otherwise.

60
Drowned In Sound
Well, there is a lack of faults, sure, but there’s not a lot that grabs hard.

60
Uncut
It’s too blunt, messy and reverent to be up there with their best, but you hope that it also serves a secondary function: to clear the decks for one last magnificent tilt at rock deification on album number ten.

60
Q Magazine
Beautiful Future isn't quite as onsistent as it could be. [Aug 2008, p.138]
60
Mojo
'Beautiful Summer's' spectral chamber rock and a take on Fleetwood Mac's 'Over & Over' prove there's life in the franchise just yet. [Aug 2008, p.103]
40
Dot Music
While eight years ago Primal Scream embraced a hard edge that blew our faces off, this limp electro-pop doesn't stand up against the likes of The Knife, who infuse their work with both an inventiveness and emotion that's sorely lacking here.

40
NOW Magazine
Gillespie will definitely need it [a new Mamma Mia-loving audience] once long-time-Primals fans hear all the twee synth-tweaked frivolity and snappy handclaps where the sleazy, distorted rock ’n’ roll jams should’ve been.

40
Sputnikmusic
This is just lazily done and disappointing considering it’s been marketed very well to appear mysterious.

40
The Guardian
It's worth reiterating that there's good music here: it's just that if you want to hear it you have endure being hectored by a man who gives every impression of being a thumping twit.


The average user rating for this album is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
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