Vanishing Point

1971年制作のアメリカ映画『バニシング・ポイント』にボビーがインスパイアされた5thアルバム。クリエイション・レーベル社長のアラン・マッギーいわく「ダブからジョン・コルトレーン、カン他の幅広い要素をもった」本作は、不断に疾走続けるプライマルの新境地。「Burning Wheel」「Kowalski」「Medication」「Motorhead」他、どれもオススメ！

Rolling Stone (7/10-24/97, pp.120-122) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...it rages woozily across the cranial dance floor, pinballing between mind f***s, genre hops and drug trips..." Spin (9/97, pp.157-158) - (8 out of 10) - "...In unfazed and lucid waves, everything--dance beats and guitar crunches, Memphis memories and Abbey Road scorings, the raw and the refined--washes through VANISHING POINT. Primal Scream hear classic rock, TV and movie scores, reggae, and the sleek means of electronica as fabulous interchangeable style moves..." Entertainment Weekly (7/11/97, pp.65-66) - "...Imagine a bunch of woozy Scots jamming in a Middle Eastern techno club in bustling Piccadilly Circus, and you have a rough idea of the swirling, hypnotic acid-trip electronica of VANISHING POINT..." - Rating: A Q (1/98, p.114) - Included in Q Magazine's "50 Best Albums of 1997." Option (11-12/97, p.111) - "...With VANISHING POINT, Primal Scream shows fruits of what must be some of pop's most voracious sets of ears....It just [seems] that no matter where the Screamers lay their hats they manage to sound at home, or at the very least, pretty damned cool." Melody Maker (12/20-27/97, pp.66-67) - Ranked #16 on Melody Maker's list of 1997's "Albums Of The Year." Melody Maker (7/5/97, p.51) - "...a real feeling of movement within its grooves; sometimes cruising on easy, other times oblivious and blindingly LOUD....crams everything in with a casual, dirty ease which [many] bands nearly kill themselves trying to stumble across." Musician (9/97, p.87) - "...loose-limbed song structures and multitudinous manipulated sounds of classic dub. Guitar, bass, drums, and vocals are often processed to a point where they are rendered unrecognizable among the mind-bending mix of tablas, sitars, bassoons, theremins, and Lord knows what else..." Village Voice (2/24/98) - Ranked #40 in the Village Voice's 1997 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. NME (Magazine) (12/20-27/97, pp.78-79) - Ranked #4 in NME's 1997 Critics' Poll. NME (Magazine) (7/5/97, p.58) - "...VANISHING POINT is a landmark for Primal Scream. It finds them all but abandoning their classic-rock shtick and discovering...the band's real voice....a truly surprising, sometimes even magical, record..."