Primal Scream: Xtrmntor/David Holmes: Bow Down to the Exit Sign/Clinic: Internal Wrangler
Djuna Parnes, Rock's Backpages, December 2000
1997S FRACTURED, fundamentally bogus Vanishing Point laid the ground for the much more focused Xtrmntor, Bobby Gillespies first true manifesto of an album since the seismic Screamadelica back in 91.
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