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Kowalski - NME Single of the Week

"... Two years ago, the smart money was saying the next Primal Scream album would be drug-addled Californian soft-rock, with one of their number dying during the recording, and the ghost of Gram Parsons as producer. It seemed after 'Give Out But Don't Give Up' the classic rock'n'roll knackers yard was Primal Scream's spiritual home for good. We should have credited Bobby G with more ambition than that, with more renegade spirit. 'Kowalski' is so utterly removed from the cock-rock of 'Give Out...' that it should be a different band. Voodoo rhythm and spooky swamp noises set the scene before a vampy Bobby Gillespie whisper breathes, "Kowalski... vanishing point," and other such inspired mystical madness over the most supremely brooding bassline. It sounds like the soundtrack to some insane sci-fi film noir biopic murder mystery set in the deep dark south of America, the protagonist ripped to the eyeballs on acid and hallucinating all manner of bad craziness. And yet you will still get your, erm, 'rocks' off on a hypnotic chemical beat that starts to envelop you after a certain point. It's about as well suited for commericial airplay as Apocalypse Now is to kids' TV, but Primal Scream still look set to rip up 1997 and redesign it in their own delirious image."

Originally Appeared in NMECopyright © IPC Magazine Ltd.

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