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XTRMNTR
Universal acclaim
Based on 16 critic reviews
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Based on 37 votes
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Album Info
Label: Astralwerks
Release Date: 02 May 2000
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Alternative, Rock, alternative
Summary
Bobby Gillespie & co. expand on the harder-edged punk/electronica sound of their previous effort, 'Vanishing Point,' with their most violent effort to date, earning rave reviews in the process and perhaps matching the success of their classic 'Screamadelica.' Contributors here include David Holmes, Bernard Sumner, Kevin Shields and the Chemical Brothers.
Also By This Artist: Beautiful Future Evil Heat Riot City Blues
What The Critics Said
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Ink Blot Magazine
The most exciting album in years....as punishing and urgent as any music you've ever heard.
Read Full Review >MTV.com
Think of a universe far, far away, where Ministry, Raw Power-era Iggy Pop, Public Enemy, and Meat Beat Manifesto get together for a pissed-off, hyped-up jam. That's what XTRMNTR sounds like, and it's a downright amazing disc.
Read Full Review >Dot Music
Throughout the album, Primal Scream set a furious pace that only narrowly stops itself before the last note is spat out. In the preceding 65 minutes, what you get is as monumental a sonic statement of the times as 'Screamadelica' was over ten years ago, the first great album of the millennium and probably the best record of the year.
Read Full Review >Resonance
The music sounds lean and direct, focused but exceedingly angry, like the band received a collective kick in the ass from some higher power.... The first masterpiece of the new millennium... [#26, p.46]
Checkout.com
It's an album of textural terror, a musical abrasive applied to the slick multinational machinery, via hard beats and sonic density, angry politix and dance-floor decline.
All Music Guide
The album is not the flawless statement against complacency the band seemed to strive for, but it succeeds at tearing heads off, shooting fascists, and quickly asking questions later with unbelievable fury. For these reasons alone, it easily serves as one of the band's highest marks.
Read Full Review >Alternative Press (Record Of The Week)
Think of Exterminator as a Baskin-Robbins shop that makes 31 flavors of amphetamine sulfate instead of ice cream: each flavor's totally wired and totally tasty. [Record of the Week pick]
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
The angriest, least compromised, most utterly justified pop record in years ?
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
Primal Scream have always understood the power of a groove and a lyrical grenade. Their entire career reaches a melting point on the raw, caustic Exterminator.... The album has its shortcomings. "Keep Your Faith" and "Insect Royalty" dip a bit too much into the more sentimental song-based style of the last record, Vanishing Point, and "Swastika Eyes" needs no reprise. But the fighting spirit keeps Primal Scream ahead of the pack.
Read Full Review >Mojo
If there's one complaint about Exterminator, apart from Bobby's rubbish rapping on Pills, it's that much of it feels like reworked outtakes from Vanishing Point.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
Somehow, the Primals' fury never seems misguided: This is one ball of aggression that hangs together, thanks to the band's smarts and funk.
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
A darkly uncompromising and often difficult record: uneasy, sinister, scored and scarred with sonic detritus and, in layman?s terms, a bloody racket.
Read Full Review >Puncture
Like the cover art, the content of this album is fast, loud, and abrasive, filled with images of speed and violence.... Thankfully, it's not all pedal-to-the-floor mayhem. There are plenty of moments like the cascading synths and free-jazz horns of "Blood Money" to keep things less than predictable. [#47, p.35]
Spin Cycle
This is a record that will certainly find its way into the clubs and on to "best of" lists as the year goes on.
Read Full Review >Sonicnet
The band's new sound appropriates slabs of dance music, free jazz, rock and techno to create a menacing landscape of rattling beats, thundering bass and crippling distortion, dotted with lyrics that evoke urban decay and social disgust.
Read Full Review >Wall of Sound
The band continues to mine both the rock and dance worlds with a jagged gruffness that is simultaneously abrasive and catchy.... The end result, though pleasing at times, is ultimately disjointed and erratic.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 37 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
MDJ gave it a10:
A real masterpiece.
Wes M gave it a10:
Got me into Primal Scream and electronica; even hippies like myself can enjoy -- all stellar.
Andrea F. gave it a10:
Great!!!!1
Moe T. gave it a10:
The best rock album of 00's!
Terence B gave it a10:
F**king great.
Will L. gave it a10:
Dark, but also atmospheric and hypnotic.
wattie m gave it a10:
awesome
