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Mar 18, 2016Unusually consistent while still admirably varied, Chaosmosis is one of the early delights of the year.
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Mar 18, 2016There's enough on Chaosmosis to keep even the most casual fan occupied over the months ahead. As for those already worshipping at the altar of Primal Scream, prepare to be consecrated once more.
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Mar 18, 2016Over the course of a 35-year career defined by excess, reinvention and the occasional brush with genius, Primal Scream have made all sorts of albums, but not one quite like this.
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Mar 16, 2016Occasionally, songs sound a little too derivative of older Scream, but Gillespie's desire to look inward feels genuine.
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Q MagazineFeb 23, 2016For the most part, their 11th album is the sound of a band getting back to their best. [Apr 2016, p.100]
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Mar 18, 2016When the group toys with synth-pop and krautrock elements, such as on the metronomic “Carnival Of Fools,” it pushes Chaosmosis further into retro territory, which is not a bad place to be.
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Mar 14, 2016Chaosmosis is a record ultra-charged by love, a deliberately lovable antidote to the hostile political environment that the U.K. finds itself in. It's also solid proof that Primal Scream are only getting better at blurring the lines between oddball and popular music, and in fact they pretty much erode it completely.
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Mar 14, 2016Chaosmosis from its title onwards is endearingly flawed, but the sense of communal enjoyment with which they are synonymous radiates from a large swathe of this material and it remains pretty addictive.
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Mar 18, 2016Will it be your favorite Primal Scream record? Probably not, but it’s a good record with a couple of killer jams--so roll a little face for old time’s sake.
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Mar 23, 2016The sonics find themselves not proving enough either. They’re free, to do what they want, any old time. And it costs them.
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Mar 21, 2016Chaosmosis is bright, honed and fun, though too many past stylistic bases are covered at the expense of new ground.
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Mar 18, 2016Compared to some of Primal Scream’s bold ventures in the past, it may be a bit lightweight, but it’s full of effervescent appeal.
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Mar 17, 2016Coherence is not this album’s strong point, then, but it all hangs together--just.
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Mar 17, 2016The bracing, sometimes violent collision of rock ‘n’ roll and dance music that’s powered Primal Scream’s best work has been melted down here into mercurial droplets--shiny and radiant, to be sure, but ultimately non-descript.
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Mar 16, 2016It's an uneven effort by a band that specializes in doing whatever the hell feels right.
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Mar 16, 2016Chaosmosis has its moments, but it sure is patchy.
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Mar 15, 2016They’re still on the side of the angels and fighting the good fight but for a band that once excelled at being extraordinary, Chaosmosis is, occasionally, too ordinary.
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Mar 2, 2016At least half of Chaosmosis matches its vitality; the only real stinker is opener Trippin' On Your Love, a happy-clappy rave generation anthem even The Shamen might have passed on. But the highlights here are as good as anything Bobby Gillespie and co-writer Andrew Innes have fashioned since 2000's touchstone XTRMNTR.
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MojoFeb 23, 2016By shedding some of their rock'n'roll excess, though, it feels as if Primal Scream finally have some idea of what they want to be when they grow up. [Apr 2016, p.90]
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Feb 23, 2016Chaosmosis is not an explosive comeback, but it does at least contain flickers of the band’s lysergic disco-punk magic.
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Mar 25, 2016Chaosmosis, though full of small pleasures, will undoubtedly go down as a minor work in the Scream discography. Primal Scream’s best records dissolved genres together like potions; Chaosmosis seems happy just to ride out the groove.
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Mar 18, 2016The rest of the record, for all its flash, leaves us in some bland middle ground- lacking the impact and craft of great pop music, but too fleeting in its appeal to work as anything else.
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Mar 18, 2016Chaosmosis finds the band scaling back their predecessor, narrowing their vistas so drastically it often seems as if the group cobbled it together on an old Casio.
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UncutFeb 23, 2016A jumbled record that veers from Screamadelica nostalgia to wobbly Bontempi soul to hushed acid-folk without ever quite finding a sound of its own. [Apr 2016, p.79]
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Mar 25, 2016There was a time when Primal Scream were considered essential, an acclaimed element of the indie rock landscape, and more than anything, Chaosmosis simply confirms that those days remain firmly in the past.
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