Primal Scream
Sonic Flower Groove

THE REVIEW

"Sonic Flower Groove" is the first album by Primal Scream, a British band led by the legendary Bobbie Gillespie and his genius, yet scattered and confused personality. Released in 1987, "Sonic Flower Groove" is the manifesto of those Primal Scream that had become, in the second half of the '80s, the standard-bearers of British acid-rock, before shifting, with "Screamadelica", towards a mix of rock, techno, and dance that would characterize their subsequent and inconsistent musical production.

In any case, the album in question remains a true gem, undoubtedly worth having in your collection: 10 perfect tracks between pop and psychedelic revival, in which our biggest references, the Beatles and the psychedelia of the second half of the '60s, seem to emerge right from the first song, the wonderful "Gentle Tuesday".
Continuing with the listening, you encounter other magnificent pieces, like the slow "May The Sun Shine Bright For You," "Silent Spring" with its long psychedelic tail, and the final "We Go Down Slowly Rising," which seal a perfect, compact album with no stylistic slips, perhaps not a masterpiece, but still a record you will listen to over and over without tiring.

After "Sonic Flower Groove," Primal Scream would significantly change their sound, alternating excellent works with others rather flat and banal, but it matters little: "Sonic Flower Groove" remains there, untouchable, in all its splendor, the typical splendor of the classics that today, 17 years later, never ceases to amaze.