PRIMAL Scream's Bobby Gillespie is aged 53; his lyrics are not. They are more the stuff of nursery rhymes, but he is not alone in this propensity. New Order's Bernard Sumner and The Human League's Phil Oakey both borrow from the classroom.
Indeed their electronic soundscapes echo through Primal Scream's 11th studio record too, bringing instant anthem status to the opening euphoria of Trippin' On Your Love (with guest harmonies from Haim) and the single Where The Light Gets In, where Gillespie couples with Sky Ferreira and chants that "peace begins within".
Should you be wondering, the album title, Chaosmosis, is taken from French psychotherapist Félix Guattari's 1992 book of the same name, whose meaning Gillespie has interpreted as wisdom gleaned from madness.
Out has gone the chaotic drink and drugs, in has come navel gazing, but still the anger burns on in (Feeling Like A) Demon Again and Gillespie has scores to settle with his past self on Private War. Time to let it go, he decides, planning his Autumn In Paradise.
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