Another installment of “1990s rock bands that I should’ve
been listening to in the 1990s.” Two tremendous albums from a band that started
in the heart of New Wave.
Both their acid house and straight rock efforts are
tremendous. Even the heavier sound of (due in part to hiring
Gary Mounfield from the broken up Stone Roses) is only so low as the highs felt
in the bubbly and danceable Screamadelica.
Vanishing Point
As a side note, the band was – like any group of artists
from Scotland in the 1990s – heavy drug users and by the mid-1990s they were
all heavy heroin addicts.
In his feature on the band, James Brown reported that
the band were arguing between Vietnamese, Chinese or Indian. When someone
interjected with the idea of a hamburger, it was found out that the subject was
not food, but heroin.
Two must haves or any fan of 1990s rock music. The albums,
not drugs.
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