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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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