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Primal Scream / ‘Bunker Trilogy’ vinyl and CD reissues

Vanishing Point, XTRMNTR, Evil Heat

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.

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Tracklisting

Vanishing Point Primal Scream / 2LP vinyl

    • LP 1
      Side A
      1. Burning Wheel
      2. Get Duffy
      3. Kowalski
      Side B
      1. Star
      2. If They Move, Kill ‘Em
      3. Out of the Void
      4. Stuka
    • LP 2
      Side C
      1. Medication
      2. Motörhead
      3. Trainspotting
      4. Long Life
      Side D (bonus tracks)
      1. 96 Tears
      2. Jesus
      3. How Does It Feel To Belong?
      4. Rebel Dub
      5. Hammond Connection

Tracklisting

XTRMNTR Primal Scream / 2LP vinyl

    • LP 1
      Side A
      1. Kill All Hippies
      2. Accelerator
      3. Exterminator
      4. Swastika Eyes” (Jagz Kooner mix)
      Side B
      1. Pills
      2. Blood Money
      3. Keep Your Dreams
      4. Insect Royalty
    • LP 2
      Side C
      1. MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill ‘Em)
      2. Swastika Eyes” (Chemical Brothers mix)
      3. Shoot Speed/Kill Light
      Side D (bonus tracks)
      1. The Reckoning*
      2. 5 Years Ahead of My Time (Brendan Lynch Mix)*
      3. When The Kingdom Comes
      4. Exterminator (Massive Attack Remix)
      5. The Revenge of the Hammond Connection

Tracklisting

Evil Heat Primal Scream / 2LP vinyl

    • LP 1
      Side A
      1. Deep Hit of Morning Sun
      2. Miss Lucifer
      3. Autobahn 66
      4. Detroit
      Side B
      1. Rise
      2. The Lord Is My Shotgun
      3. City
      4. Some Velvet Morning
    • LP 2
      Side C
      1. Skull X
      2. A Scanner Darkly
      3. Space Blues #2

      Side D (bonus tracks)

      1. Autobahn 66 (single edit)
      2. Some Velvet Morning (single version)
      3. Substance D (Andy Weatherall’s Mix of ‘A Scanner Deeply’)
      4. Some Velvet Morning (Disco Heater Dub)
      5. Country Blues #1

Tracklisting

Vanishing Point Primal Scream / CD

      1. Burning Wheel
      2. Get Duffy
      3. Kowalski
      4. Star
      5. If They Move, Kill ‘Em
      6. Out of the Void
      7. Stuka
      8. Medication
      9. Motörhead
      10. Trainspotting
      11. Long Life
      Bonus tracks
      1. 96 Tears
      2. Jesus
      3. How Does It Feel To Belong?
      4. Rebel Dub
      5. Hammond Connection

Tracklisting

XTRMNTR Primal Scream / CD

      1. Kill All Hippies
      2. Accelerator
      3. Exterminator
      4. Swastika Eyes” (Jagz Kooner mix)
      5. Pills
      6. Blood Money
      7. Keep Your Dreams
      8. Insect Royalty
      9. MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill ‘Em)
      10. Swastika Eyes” (Chemical Brothers mix)
      11. Shoot Speed/Kill Light
      Bonus tracks
      1. The Reckoning*
      2. 5 Years Ahead of My Time (Brendan Lynch Mix)*
      3. When The Kingdom Comes
      4. Exterminator (Massive Attack Remix)
      5. 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 Heat Primal Scream / CD

      1. Deep Hit of Morning Sun
      2. Miss Lucifer
      3. Autobahn 66
      4. Detroit
      5. Rise
      6. The Lord Is My Shotgun
      7. City
      8. Some Velvet Morning
      9. Skull X
      10. A Scanner Darkly
      11. Space Blues #2
      Bonus tracks
      1. Autobahn 66 (single edit)
      2. Some Velvet Morning (single version)
      3. Substance D (Andy Weatherall’s Mix of ‘A Scanner Deeply’)
      4. Some Velvet Morning (Disco Heater Dub)
      5. Country Blues #1

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