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Solidifies Tyler's place in a rare echelon of artists — where every new album feels like a Big Event, complete with its own thematic concerns, production style, visual aesthetic and even fictional aliases
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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
The Quietus
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Come Ahead
A triumph in thematic/aural juxtaposition, Come Ahead is up there with Primal Scream’s best. Print edition only
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Come Ahead
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
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Come Ahead
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Night Palace
Elverum took his time with this album. Night Palace is startling, brave, and utterly brilliant
Spill Magazine
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Songs Of A Lost World
There is a finality to Smith’s thematic choice of words, but it is in the delivery that the urgency and desperation can really be felt as he wrestles with regret, grief, ageing, and humanity’s futile nature
Northern Transmissions
The Cure
Songs Of A Lost World
The West Sussex legends' first album of new material since 4:13 Dream maps out the hours, minutes, seconds of our 16 years apart, playing back the sound of surviving the death of a planet, hoping that Robert Smith’s voice is there with us as the ground goes cold
Paste Magazine
The Cure
Songs Of A Lost World
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