Primal Scream 'Higher Than The Sun (Live at Olympia)' (2010)

Ah, Screamadelica - the point at which the gobshite rock'n'roll suicides of Primal Scream emerged from an Ecstasy-induced rebirth as genre fusing visionaries. Not sure how that happened - I think Andrew Weatherall has a lot to do with it, though - but 'Higher Than The Sun' was the point at which I did a volte-face and dug the Scream.

Such an irrefutable piece of genius has that kind of effect. Yes, 'Loaded' was a good indie-dance floor-filler, but it didn't fuse deep, deep dub reggae with ambience and Pharoah Sanders, now did it? And it didn't have Jah Wobble on the mind-expanding 'A Dub Symphony In Two Parts' version either.

Recently reissued in a mind-boggling hundred-quid tin or as a more palatable double CD version, Screamadelica is one of the great albums of the last twenty years even though it was cobbled together from tracks conceived in isolation rather than recorded as a whole album.

They've also started to perform the whole of 'Screamadelica' live and this track is taken from the first shows last year at Olympia. A lot of 'Screamadelica' was never performed live at the time. 'Higher Than The Sun' was but the 2010 live version turns it into even more of a head trip with free-er sax and over 13 minutes of blissed-out joy.

Download Primal Scream 'Higher Than The Sun (Live at Olympia)' (mp3, Mediafire)

Primal Scream official website