For a band that gave us seminal classics like 1991’s Screamadelica, 1997’s Vanishing Point and 2000’s epochal XTRMNTR, it was quite hard to believe Primal Scream could come up with total crap two years ago, which they titled Riot City Blues. I was really hoping they would have recovered that hard edge and done something new with their newest album, Beautiful Future.
But alas, it’s another derivative, boring and patchy effort from a bunch of guys who seem to have lost their edge. With the exception of one or two well-produced tracks (like the very groovy Uptown), most of the album is just despondently disappointing.