Mark Stewart / Primal Scream

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4...according to our Clinton on Thu 16 Feb, 2012.

I was just about to go on a rant generally pontificating as to how Primal Scream must be the longest serving purveyors of rubbish whilst simultaneously remaining phenomenally successful and more importantly 'cool' to the people who matter when I suddenly realised that I was quite enjoying this. Its a collaboration with ex Pop Group man and general intense lunatic Mark Stewart. The A side which is a Pinch remix has Stewart barking away like the angriest man alive whilst underneath there's a battery of techno inspired rhythms and acidy squiggles. It sounds like the best Public Image Limited comeback ever....or an amalgamation of Moonshake, Alec Empire and Aphex Twin. Super. Pinch does a less energetic 'dub' version and on the flip JD Switch faffs about with some dark dub.

***Limited to 500 copies***

With the release of his eagerly anticipated album ‘The Politics of Envy’ fast approaching (due March 26th), Mark Stewart has announced his first single ‘Autonomia’ a no-holds-barred collision with long-time fans Primal Scream.
It has been remixed by two heavyweight champions of the underground, Pinch and JD Twitch. Pinch loads up on dark and brooding, with a stripped and dubby Shackleton-esque interpretation, while Twitch opts for a warped and slo-mo, acid-licked stomp. Both offering, deliciously moody interpretations of the first single from the upcoming Mark Stewart album ‘The Politics of Envy’.

‘Autonomia’, a dense agit-protest superfunk monster with sirens and Bobby Gillespie’s frenetic ‘keeping the dream alive‘ call-and-response chant with Stewart who explains the story behind the song - “I’d written this song about a guy called Carlo Giuliani, who was killed at the G8 demonstrations in Genoa, this kind of autonomist bloke. At that point, it was kind of like a protest song ... afterwards I started getting on with Bobby, who was interested in politics and I asked Adrian [Sherwood] about doing it. It’s important that people hear about the story, it’s the message and the atmosphere as much as anything.’

Stewart’s scathing political barbs with the Pop Group and beyond, heavily informed Primal Scream’s ferociously politicised Xtmntr and other works. With the intensity of Stewart’s latest body of work back to red alert, this apocalyptic collaboration, made possible by the two camps’ lengthy associations with Adrian Sherwood, has been further honed into a heat-seeking radio edit.