XTRMNTR by Primal Scream

XTRMNTR, Primal Scream's sixth studio album, came out on Creation Records in January 2000, and it sounds like a riot breaking out inside a mixing desk. The title is "Exterminator" with the vowels ripped out, and the music follows suit: harsh, noisy, electronic, closer to industrial clatter than to anything the band had made before. Bobby Gillespie swaps the old hedonism for fury, taking aim at government, the police and multinational corporations, and "Swastika Eyes" hits like a brick through a window.

The lineup is stacked for war. Andrew Innes and Robert Young on guitars, Martin Duffy on keys, Darrin Mooney on drums, and Mani, ex-Stone Roses, sharing songwriting credits with the band for the first time. Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine helped produce and played on it, and the Chemical Brothers and New Order's Bernard Sumner pitch in too. It reached number 3 in the UK and was the last full-length Creation ever released.

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