Album review: Primal Scream, Chaosmosis

Primal Scream have described their 11th album as a “statement of beauty in dark times”. It has certainly been a fraught several years for the great 1990s innovators who, across recent records, have struggled to remain relevant and, at moments, tumbled towards unwitting pastiche.

They work hard at correcting course on Chaosmosis — their second LP since the departure of late guitarist and founding member Robert ‘Throb’ Young — and the results will unquestionably challenge the received wisdom that the band have just two settings: trippy electro-crossover and sub-Stones boogie-woogie.