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XTRMNTR

by Primal Scream

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2000's

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2000

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Overall Rating: 3.4492 XTRMNTR is ranked overall as 3.4492 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.5067 XTRMNTR has an avg. critic score of 3.5067 out of 4 stars

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Pitchfork

Primal Scream have always understood the power of a groove and a lyrical grenade. Their entire career reaches a melting point on the raw, caustic Exterminator.... The album has its shortcomings. "Keep Your Faith" and "Insect Royalty" dip a bit too much ...more

Pitch Fork Media

The instruments of war have always been percussion. I'm not referring to tanks, battlerams and firearms, but musical instruments. Granted, the incessant thunder and crack of explosives is percussive, albeit erratic. The quick history lesson on ...more

Q Magazine

A darkly uncompromising and often difficult record: uneasy, sinister, scored and scarred with sonic detritus and, in layman?s terms, a bloody racket. ...more

Spin Cycle

This is a record that will certainly find its way into the clubs and on to "best of" lists as the year goes on. ...more

Mojo

If there's one complaint about Exterminator, apart from Bobby's rubbish rapping on Pills, it's that much of it feels like reworked outtakes from Vanishing Point. ...more

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Rolling Stone

Somehow, the Primals' fury never seems misguided: This is one ball of aggression that hangs together, thanks to the band's smarts and funk. ...more

Rolling Stone

Primal Scream's previous albums sounded filtered through a drug haze. But if the U.K. band was occasionally stunning on its landmark acid-house soundtrack,Screamadelica(1991), and on the dubby dance exploration of 1997'sVanishing Point-- even its ...more

Sonicnet

The band's new sound appropriates slabs of dance music, free jazz, rock and techno to create a menacing landscape of rattling beats, thundering bass and crippling distortion, dotted with lyrics that evoke urban decay and social disgust. ...more

Wall of Sound

The band continues to mine both the rock and dance worlds with a jagged gruffness that is simultaneously abrasive and catchy.... The end result, though pleasing at times, is ultimately disjointed and erratic. ...more

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