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Come Ahead

Primal Scream

Come Ahead

Album number twelve and first in eight years from Bobby Gillespie's psychedelic alt.rock band

ADM rating[?]

6.3

Label
BMG Rights Management
UK Release date
08/11/2024
US Release date
08/11/2024
  1. 8.0 |   Clash

    As righteously indignant and vital as ever, ‘Come Ahead’ is another high in a career full of them
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  2. 8.0 |   Record Collector

    Gillespie's words can sound like platitudes when they're written down, but his sincerity and the music's sonic freshness and influence-exposing urgency elevate the material, evoking the Primal Scream of 30 years ago. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Mojo

    A triumph in thematic/aural juxtaposition, Come Ahead is up there with Primal Scream’s best. Print edition only

  4. 8.0 |   The Independent

    At 63, Bobby Gillespie can still channel the back-alley menace of a truant teen while embracing full-blown hedonism in his music
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  5. 8.0 |   NME

    Personal and political, Bobby Gillespie and co’s David Holmes-assisted first album in eight years wants us to dance our way to justice
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  6. 8.0 |   The Arts Desk

    A band back on top of their song writing game after so many years of never quite doing the business
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  7. 8.0 |   DIY

    Another chapter in a band priding themselves on forward movement while celebrating their storied past
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  8. 7.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    While not a top-notch epic, the record successfully starts a new era for the group, albeit in quite an unusual retro fashion for them. Finally, Bobby released a big budget sounding album to match the shiny suits he wears these days
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  9. 6.8 |   Pitchfork

    The first Primal Scream album in eight years gives Bobby Gillespie’s acid-dipped grooves a funky, cinematic sheen
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  10. 6.0 |   The Observer

    The frontman of the Scottish rockers contemplates mortality and more on an album with shades of 70s Philly soul
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  11. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    Bobby Gillespie and co’s first album in eight years offsets brittle plastic funk and syrupy ballads with meaty riffs and disco beats
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  12. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    The frontman of the Scottish rockers contemplates mortality and more on an album with shades of 70s Philly soul
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  13. 5.9 |   Northern Transmissions

    The writing was often times uncomplying and Gillespie’s singing was unfortunately lacking of emotion and passion which caused it to feel boring and flat; a stark contrast to the interesting composition of the instruments
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  14. 4.0 |   The FT

    Bobby Gillespie is good at posturing, as rock frontmen ought to be, but emotional depth isn’t his thing
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  15. 3.0 |   The Quietus

    t would take a hell of a reinvention to pull back Primal Scream from this stinking brink. Come Ahead is a record that fails, fatally, to recognise that Bobby Gillespie was always Primal Scream’s least compelling element
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  16. 2.0 |   The Irish Times

    Ethical concerns are the least of fans’ worries, as not even David Holmes’s involvement can save this woefully inadequate collection
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