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Primal Scream: Come Ahead review – Bobby Gillespie’s most personal album yet

The frontman of the Scottish rockers contemplates mortality and more on an album with shades of 70s Philly soul

But the 12th Primal Scream wasn’t really on his to-do list until producer David Holmes began sending him rhythm tracks, which formed the basis for the 11 songs here. That’s his father, pictured in 1960, on the cover as well, and it was Gillespie Sr’s experiences in the army that informed the reflective False Flags. The album closer is more overtly political, attacking as it does English colonialism by referencing Culloden and Cromwell in Ireland, although there are barely veiled references to Palestine there too – hinted at in the track’s title, Settlers Blues.

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