Evil Heat

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Evil Heat
Studio album by
Primal Scream
Released5 August 2002 (2002-08-05)
Genre
Length41:52
Label
Producer
Primal Scream chronology
XTRMNTR
(2000) 		Evil Heat
(2002) 		Dirty Hits
(2003)
Singles from Evil Heat
  1. "Miss Lucifer"
    Released: June 2002
  2. "Autobahn 66"
    Released: November 2002
  3. "Some Velvet Morning"
    Released: November 2002

Evil Heat is the seventh

studio album by Scottish rock band Primal Scream. It was first released on 5 August 2002 in the United Kingdom by Columbia Records and on 26 November 2002 in the United States by Epic Records. It peaked at number 9 on the UK Albums Chart.[1] Musically, its style forms a link between two of the band's previous albums: the aggressive protest of XTRMNTR (2000), and the acid house psychedelia of Screamadelica (1991).[2]

Composition

The track "Rise" was originally titled "Bomb the Pentagon", and debuted as part of the band's live set in summer 2001. In light of the

Martin Duffy, is a follow-up to "Space Blues", a song by his previous band Felt
.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic68/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Blender[5]
The Guardian[6]
NME8/10[7]
Pitchfork6.0/10[8]
Rolling Stone[9]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68, based on 24 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]

Playlouder ranked the album at number 35 on their list of the top 50 albums of 2002.[10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by

Martin Duffy
2:28
Japanese edition bonus track
No.TitleLength
12."Substance D"3:46

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Primal Scream

Additional musicians

  • Jim Reid – lead vocals (4)
  • Kate Moss – additional vocals (8)
  • Robert Plant – harmonica (6)
  • Kevin Shields – guitar effects (7)
  • Paul Harte – guitar effects (9)
  • Phil Mossman – harmonica (2)
  • Darren Morris – synthesizer (5)
  • Chris Mackin – bass guitar (3)
  • Marco Nelson – harmony voice (3)
  • Brendan Lynch – synthesizer (7)

Charts

Chart Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[11] 50
Finnish Albums (
Suomen virallinen lista)[12]
 39
French Albums (
SNEP)[13]
 101
Italian Albums (FIMI)[14] 50
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[15] 27
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[16] 17
UK Albums (OCC)[1] 9

References

  1. ^ a b "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Evil Heat - Primal Scream ǀ Releases". Allmusic. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  3. ^
    CBS Interactive
    . Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  4. ^ AllMusic
  5. ^ Collis, Clark. "Primal Scream Evil Heat". Blender. Archived from the original on 20 August 2004. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  6. ^ "CD of the week: Primal Scream: Evil Heat". The Guardian. 2 August 2002. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023.
  7. ^ NME
  8. ^ Pitchfork
  9. ^ Rolling Stone Archived October 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "Top 50". Playlouder. Archived from the original on 19 October 2005. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Australiancharts.com – Primal Scream – Evil Heat". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  12. Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland
    . Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  13. ^ "Lescharts.com – Primal Scream – Evil Heat". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  14. ^ "Italiancharts.com – Primal Scream – Evil Heat". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  15. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Primal Scream – Evil Heat". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  16. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Primal Scream – Evil Heat". Hung Medien. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

External links

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