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Riot City Blues is the eighth studio album by Primal Scream released on June 5, 2006. It features Will Sergeant (Echo and the Bunnymen) on "When The Bomb Drops", Warren Ellis (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dirty Three) on "Hell's Coming Down" and Alison Mosshart (The Kills) performing backing vocals. The album was released to mixed reviews, with many critics feeling that the band's return to the traditional rock sound of Give Out but Don't Give Up was tired compared to their other recent work. A particularly scathing review on Pitchfork claimed that the album was "...flat and dead. It's as if Primal Scream have run completely out of ideas and so they've reverted to the detestable fallbacks of honking harmonicas and bar-band choogles, acting like college freshmen who just discovered blues." While The Guardian said "...Primal Scream are the kind of band that would probably snap there's no such thing as a guilty pleasure, only good music and bad music. But their eighth album undermines that claim. One the one hand, it is conservatism dressed up as rebellion, derivative, self-parodic and very, very, stupid. On the other, it boasts an energy and a shamelessness that demands you abandon your vast array of reservations. No mean feat. The debut single, "Country Girl", became the band's highest charting in their career, while the album charted at #5 in the UK.

Track listing

  1. "Country Girl"
  2. "Nitty Gritty"
  3. "Suicide Sally & Johnny Guitar"
  4. "When The Bomb Drops"
  5. "Little Death"
  6. "The 99th Floor"
  7. "Boogie Disease"
  8. "Dolls (Sweet Rock n Roll)"
  9. "Hell's Comin' Down"
  10. "Sometimes I Feel So Lonely"


Singles

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