Give Out but Don’t Give Up by Primal Scream

Give Out but Don't Give Up, Primal Scream's fourth studio album, came out on Creation in the UK and Sire in the States on 28 March 1994, and it slammed the door on the psychedelic dance swirl of Screamadelica. In its place came a strutting, bluesy classic-rock record, produced by Tom Dowd, that sounds like Bobby Gillespie and company had spent three years listening to nothing but the Rolling Stones and old Muscle Shoals soul.

"Rocks" is the swaggering centrepiece, a bar-room stomper built for shaking hips. The Screamadelica faithful were horrified, and one critic called it among the most hated records of its day, though the band had played in a rootsy vein on their earliest albums. It still reached number 2 in Britain. The sleeve uses a William Eggleston photograph, and the lost Memphis sessions finally surfaced in 2018.

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