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- Summary: Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Warren Ellis (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds), and Will Sergeant (Echo and the Bunnymen) guest on the band's first album in four years, which ditches the aggressive, electronic elements of their previous two outings in favor of a more traditional blues-rock homage.
- Record Label: Sony / Columbia
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 19
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Mixed: 7 out of 19
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Negative: 4 out of 19
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FilterThis is the band's most cohesive, accessible, melodic and lyrically viscous record to date. [#21, p.99]
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UncutIt's dumb, downhome fun, and deliberately gizmo-free. [Jul 2006, p.86]
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Stupid, clichéd, utterly ridiculous for sure, but done with so much pizazz that you can't help but fall for its charms.
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The band mostly avoids the mythic seriousness of the past in favor of party-ready stuff like "Country Girl" and meaty rock sonics.
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Q MagazineIn creating a party record that will easily translate to the festival season's main stages they've also reversed out of the narrow tunnel that, for all their adventure, they were being led into by the bombastic Xtrmntr and Evil Heat. [Jul 2006, p.110]
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Riot City Blues would make a wonderful addition to any pub’s jukebox, but it’s galling how ordinary Primal Scream sound when they’re not crackling with the sparks of invention that coloured a record like Screamadelica.
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It's as if Primal Scream have run completely out of ideas and so they've reverted to the detestable fallbacks of honking harmonicas and bar-band choogles, acting like college freshmen who just discovered blues.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 21
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Mixed: 2 out of 21
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Negative: 5 out of 21
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gastonmNov 12, 2006
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GiulioJun 14, 2006classic 70's stones sound but extremely amusing! It's only rock'n'roll... and I like it!
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Jan 17, 2015
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[Anonymous]Jun 15, 2006Rawk and Roll
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BenGOct 23, 2006
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SteveJun 19, 2006
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MichaelMJul 30, 2006
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