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Riot City Blues

by Primal Scream

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Overall Rating: 2.2704 Riot City Blues is ranked overall as 2.2704 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.4216 Riot City Blues has an avg. critic score of 2.4216 out of 4 stars

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Entertainment Weekly

Primal Scream have never made up their minds about whether they want to be political-minded techno-indie-funk futurists or the Rolling Stones circa 1972. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

Sounds like a collection of Exile on Main Street outtakes--and often good ones at that

All Music Guide

Listened to with an open mind, it's a refreshingly retro rock & roll album that uses its waste-oid imagination in capturing every fantasy that entered Bobby Gillespie's teenage mind. ...more

Rolling Stone

The band mostly avoids the mythic seriousness of the past in favor of party-ready stuff like "Country Girl" and meaty rock sonics. ...more

PopMatters

Riot City Blues would make a wonderful addition to any pub’s jukebox, but it’s galling how ordinary Primal Scream sound when they’re not crackling with the sparks of invention that coloured a record like Screamadelica. ...more

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Filter

This is the band's most cohesive, accessible, melodic and lyrically viscous record to...read the complete review at Filter

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Uncut

It's dumb, downhome fun, and deliberately...read the complete review at Uncut

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Q Magazine

In creating a party record that will easily translate to the festival season's main stages they've also reversed out of the narrow tunnel that, for all their adventure, they were being led into by the bombastic Xtrmntr and Evil...read the complete review at Q Magazine

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cokemachineglow

It's nice that Primal Scream attacks these tunes with gusto, but the passionate performance doesn't hide the fact that this album is utterly inessential, little more than a sampler for what amounts to a really swell wedding band....read the complete review at cokemachineglow

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