Reviews
Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997.", "...With VANISHING POINT, Primal Scream shows fruits of what must be some of pop's most voracious sets of ears....It just seems that no matter where the Screamers lay their hats they manage to sound at home, or at the very least, pretty damned cool.", 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...it rages woozily across the cranial dance floor, pinballing between mind f***s, genre hops and drug trips...", Ranked #40 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll., "...a real feeling of movement within its grooves; sometimes cruising on easy, other times oblivious and blindingly LOUD....crams everything in with a casual, dirty ease which many bands nearly kill themselves trying to stumble across.", Ranked #16 on Melody Maker's List of 1997's "Albums of the Year.", (8 out of 10) - "...In unfazed and lucid waves, everything--dance beats and guitar crunches, Memphis memories and Abbey Road scorings, the raw and the refined--washes through VANISHING POINT. Primal Scream hear classic rock, TV and movie scores, reggae, and the sleek means of electronica as fabulous interchangeable style moves...", "...VANISHING POINT is a landmark for Primal Scream. It finds them all but abandoning their classic-rock shtick and discovering...the band's real voice....a truly surprising, sometimes even magical, record...", Ranked #4 in Nme's 1997 Critics' Poll., "...Imagine a bunch of woozy Scots jamming in a Middle Eastern techno club in bustling Piccadilly Circus, and you have a rough idea of the swirling, hypnotic acid-trip electronica of VANISHING POINT..." - Rating: A, "...loose-limbed song structures and multitudinous manipulated sounds of classic dub. Guitar, bass, drums, and vocals are often processed to a point where they are rendered unrecognizable among the mind-bending mix of tablas, sitars, bassoons, theremins, and Lord knows what else..."
