Primal Scream - Love You

Complaining about this album being an obvious photocopy of its influences is a bit like cursing the sky for being blue. Reworking past inspirations into something else has always been the raison d’être of Bobby Gillespie and company, after all. But that said, there’s no question that Sonic Flower Groove is one goofy headscratcher of a release, the sound of a band that didn’t quite know exactly what to do yet trying to record a big-budget (of sorts) debut album and ending up with little more than a pristine but dull photocopy of Turn! Turn! Turn! While not intrinsically horrible, it’s not intrinsically much of anything else either, and certainly in light of everything the band did in the following years, it’s the most wistful, fragile, and ultimately boring of its releases. The Byrds worship evident in earlier songs like “Velocity Girl“ was here taken to ridiculous extremes, and if Jim Beattie wasn’t trying to hide his love for chiming guitars, he wasn’t t