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Primal Scream: Chicks With Everything

James Brown, New Musical Express, 28 September 1991

Bacchanalia in the USA! Well, Kentish Town actually, but then the true spirit of rock 'n' roll has always been in the mind, reckons PRIMAL SCREAM's BOBBY GILLESPIE — the boy in a Bowie 'n' Bolan-fixated bubble liberated by the mind-expanding possibilities of dance music on a slew of classic singles. Accordingly, the Primals' third LP, Screamadelica, is their finest yet, a seamless evocation of rock's rich pickings and rave culture's most incandescent burblings. JAMES BROWN fights his way though the bevy of chicks and dog-eared record covers to ask Bobby "do you believe in magic?"

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