Screamadelica
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| Studio album by Primal Scream | ||||
| Released | 23 September 1991 | |||
| Recorded | 1990 – 1991 | |||
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| Length | 64:48 | |||
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| AllMusic |  |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| Los Angeles Times |  |
| Mojo | |
| NME | 10/10 |
| Pitchfork | 9.0/10 |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| Select | 5/5 |
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Screamadelica is the third studio album by Scottish alternative rock group Primal Scream, released on 23 September 1991 in the UK by Creation Records, and 8 October 1991 in North America by Sire Records. It was their first album to be a commercial success, peaking at #8 on the UK Albums Chart upon its initial release. The album received positive reviews and has been frequently named one of the best albums of the 1990s in critics' polls. Screamadelica also won the first Mercury Music Prize in 1992. It has sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
The album was a significant departure from the band's early indie rock sound, drawing inspiration from the house music scene (and associated drugs) that was becoming popular at the time of its production. The band enlisted house DJs Andrew Weatherall and Terry Farley on producing duties, although the album also contains a wide range of other influences including gospel and dub.
Although the band wrote a track also called Screamadelica, it does not appear on the album. The ten-minute dance track was also produced by Andrew Weatherall and sung by Denise Johnson. It appears on the Dixie-Narco EP, released in 1992, and is featured in the opening credits of the now rare Screamadelica VHS video tape.
The album includes "Loaded", which was a top twenty hit single in the UK. Dance DJ Andrew Weatherall began remixing "I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have", from their previous album, and the resulting track disassembled the song, adding a drum loop from an Italian bootleg mix of Edie Brickell's "What I Am" and a sample from the Peter Fonda B-movie The Wild Angels. The single "Movin' on Up" was the band's breakthrough hit in the United States, reaching #2 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, and also making #28 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
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