Primal Scream are to reissue expanded editions of their so called ‘Bunker Trilogy’: Vanishing Point (1997), XTRMNTR (2000) and Evil Heat (2002), on vinyl and CD.
Bobby Gillespie: “The albums constituting The Bunker Trilogy were the complete antithesis of everything that was going on in UK music in the 1990s. We were making uncompromising aggressive experimental pop and rock music with lyrics about psychic dislocation, addiction, alienation, depression, questioning our very existence and documenting the dark sleazy underbelly of UK youth culture… Whilst the rest of the UK music and cultural scene fell in love with itself, convinced by their own genius, drowning in an orgy of narcissism and cocaine in a permanent self-aggrandizing state, we had had our times of utopian thinking at the beginning of the decade but were now full of disgust for ourselves and the world. Out of that self-reflecting mood came the albums Vanishing Point, XTMTR and Evil Heat. All recorded at our north London studio, The Bunker.”
All three albums have been newly mastered by Matt Colon at Metropolis Studios (under the supervision of Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes) and are available on limited edition coloured 2LP vinyl and on CD.
All three titles offer a selection of rarities as bonus tracks with XTRMNTR going one further and delivering two previously unreleased tracks. Vinyl and CD have the same tracklistings.
These are being released in stages, with Vanishing Point out on 7 August, XTRMNTR on 4 September and Evil Heat on 30 October 2024, all via Sony. The coloured vinyl is reportedly fairly limited and will be replaced with black vinyl when sold out.
Substance D (Andy Weatherall’s Mix of ‘A Scanner Deeply’)
Some Velvet Morning (Disco Heater Dub)
Country Blues #1
Tracklisting
Vanishing Point Primal Scream/CD
Burning Wheel
Get Duffy
Kowalski
Star
If They Move, Kill ‘Em
Out of the Void
Stuka
Medication
Motörhead
Trainspotting
Long Life
Bonus tracks
96 Tears
Jesus
How Does It Feel To Belong?
Rebel Dub
Hammond Connection
Tracklisting
XTRMNTRPrimal Scream/CD
Kill All Hippies
Accelerator
Exterminator
Swastika Eyes” (Jagz Kooner mix)
Pills
Blood Money
Keep Your Dreams
Insect Royalty
MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill ‘Em)
Swastika Eyes” (Chemical Brothers mix)
Shoot Speed/Kill Light
Bonus tracks
The Reckoning*
5 Years Ahead of My Time (Brendan Lynch Mix)*
When The Kingdom Comes
Exterminator (Massive Attack Remix)
The Revenge of the Hammond Connection
*previously unreleased
“The albums constituting The Bunker Trilogy were the complete antithesis of everything that was going on in UK music in the 1990s. We were making uncompromising aggressive experimental pop and rock music with lyrics about psychic dislocation, addiction, alienation, depression, questioning our very existence and documenting the dark sleazy underbelly of UK youth culture. We were wary of New Labour and its neo-liberal trojan horse policies and we were prescient in our prediction of the resurgence of fascism, militarism and Imperialism to come in the 21st century. We were not ever ‘Brit Pop’ – we wanted to burn the flag, not wave it. Whilst the rest of the UK music and cultural scene fell in love with itself, convinced by their own genius, drowning in an orgy of narcissism and cocaine in a permanent self-aggrandizing state, we had had our times of utopian thinking at the beginning of the decade but were now full of disgust for ourselves and the world. Out of that self-reflecting mood came the albums Vanishing Point, XTMTR and Evil Heat. All recorded at our north London studio, The Bunker. We are quietly ecstatic that these albums have all been newly mastered complete with the necessary ‘B’ sides from the times and will once again be available on vinyl, CD and streaming platforms, as this is a body of work that we are very, very proud of.”
Tracklisting
Evil HeatPrimal Scream/CD
Deep Hit of Morning Sun
Miss Lucifer
Autobahn 66
Detroit
Rise
The Lord Is My Shotgun
City
Some Velvet Morning
Skull X
A Scanner Darkly
Space Blues #2
Bonus tracks
Autobahn 66 (single edit)
Some Velvet Morning (single version)
Substance D (Andy Weatherall’s Mix of ‘A Scanner Deeply’)
Some Velvet Morning (Disco Heater Dub)
Country Blues #1
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By Paul Sinclair
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