A watershed '90s release, Screamadelica was the most convincing marriage of overground rock and underground dance music yet. With one foot in Beggars Banquet-era
Stones (the gospel-rock "Movin' on Up") and the other in the trippy
soundscapes of rave culture (the Orb-produced "Higher Than the Sun"),
Primal Scream caught the mind-blown euphoria of Ecstacy better than
anyone. Frontman Bobby Gillespie had no singing voice to speak of, but
his vision of cosmic hedonism made him a drugged-out Pied Piper for the
acid tribes. From the incantatory anthems "Loaded" and "Come Together"
to the sinister rendering of the 13th Floor Elevators' "Slip Inside This
House," Screamadelica was a modern psych classic. --Barney Hoskyns
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