Primal Scream – Chaosmosis: Best album since 2000

There have been many incarnations of Primal Scream over the past two decades, yet the band – fronted by the slim stick that is Bobby Gillespie – has managed to maintain an identifiable core image of drug-fuelled aggressiveness crossed with genre-hopping swagger.

Three years after More Light, however, and they seem keen to develop beyond the obvious, which is probably why Chaosmosis is the best Primal Scream album since 2000's XTRMNTR.

An aspect of the band people tend to overlook is their pop nous, and Chaosmosis is full of it. The likes of Trippin' on Your Love (Ibiza-tinged nightlife with backing vocals by Haim) and I Can Change (glacial synth-pop benefitting from an unusually candid lyric) are but two examples of how an established act can change course for the better. primalscream.net